Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

5-9: Delegating Administration and Support of Computers

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance and procedures
Features and tools	Local Administrators group, Group Policy Restricted Group policies
Solution summary	Manage the delegation of administrative rights on client and server computers so that you can control who is able to administer and support individual systems.
Benefits	Increase the security of your environment by removing the Domain Admins group from the local Administrators group and replacing it with a group that enables managed control of local Administrators credentials.

Introduction

As organizations recognize the need to secure their servers and the desktops and laptops of end users, and as they come to understand the importance of least ...