Adding a regular local user to the local administrators group using GPO

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Adding a regular local user to the local administrators group using GPO

Abdulrahman 101

Is it possible to add a regular local user to the local administrator group? so in case of emergency I can login to the machine using this local user with admin privileges.

If yes, then how it could be done?

Thank you.

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Answer 1

Anonymous

Sure thing, you can follow along here.

https://woshub.com/add-domain-users-local-admin-group-gpo/

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Anonymous

2023-03-16T12:52:44.2133333+00:00

Just checking if there's any progress or updates?

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Abdulrahman 101 Reputation points

2023-03-16T20:26:24.6366667+00:00

Thank you for your response, appreciate it.

I believe this solution is for creating a domain user and adding it to a local machine.

What I am looking for is to create a local user not a domain user. I know it is a pretty strange but I hope I can meat this goal without doing it manually if possible.

waiting your great feedback.

Answer 2

Anonymous

Ok, sure it's absolutely possible. From Computer Management expand and navigate to Users group, then in right pane right-click the local user (or create a new one), Properties, then on Member Of tab, Add, type in "administrators", check names, OK.

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2023-03-17T12:45:11.1133333+00:00

Just checking if there's any progress or updates?

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Abdulrahman 101 Reputation points

2023-03-17T14:19:08.9366667+00:00

This is the manual way.

is there anyway to do this through a powershell or a policy remotely. Basically the action that I want is to create that local user (non-domain) to a local machine and to be a member of the local administrator group.

Answer 3

Anonymous

Yes, you could do this with PowerShell.

Add-LocalGroupMember -Group "Administrators" -Member "Admin02", "MicrosoftAccount\******@Outlook.com", "AzureAD\******@contoso.com", "CONTOSO\Domain Admins"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.localaccounts/add-localgroupmember?view=powershell-5.1

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Anonymous

2023-03-18T12:51:03.4466667+00:00

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