How to set up and deploy local admin in a workstation in Active Directory.

Reuben Torres 0 Reputation points
2023-05-15T21:35:18.8966667+00:00

How to set and deploy local admin in a workstation in Active Directory.

I currently manually go to Computer Management and then to the user account in the Control Panel to add the local admin, but I would like to have it set up automatically for every user in my organization. We currently have 162 staff members.

Windows Server 2012
Windows Server 2012
A Microsoft server operating system that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
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  1. Dave Patrick 426.1K Reputation points MVP
    2023-05-15T21:41:30.6133333+00:00

    You can easily do this via group policy. You can follow along here.

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

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  2. Reuben Torres 0 Reputation points
    2023-05-16T14:13:24.69+00:00

    Hello Dave,

    I have not tried your instructions, but I will let you know as soon as I do.