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Administrative Privelages Issue
Dear Windows 7 IT Community,
Please comment only if you are a seasoned system administrator. That being said, our office is configured with Windows 7 64 bit workstations, Public Firewall settings and Symantec Endpoint Protection. Users log in as local standard users. I keep getting complaints that the users would like to administrate their own machines and would like an administrative account in addition to their standard user account to run updates, install software, etc. Despite being standard users and having to call IT for support with 3rd party software updates, and installs, we have had a few minor virus/trojan incidents. Running the AV full scan removed them.
As the IT admin, I feel safer if the users did not have administrative abilities even though it would be a separate account. I wanted to ask your professional opinion on this.
Thanks