UAC, Scripts and Windows Updates
Before moving on to evaluating Vista without UAC I would like to find out if the following is possible.Please:No "UAC is great/bad" or home users' input. IT pros only please. Looking for answers, not opinions.Environment:Win2003 AD, XP or above as clients, Exchange, print servers, GPOs. WSUS3 with GPO config.Kixtart script to map network drives and printers. For Vista, currently using vb script.Trying to evaluate if a user could finally be non-admin using Vista a few problems have come up.Is there a way to allow Windows Updates to be downloaded and installed by the standard user? Reason for "notify bef. download and prompt for install" is the travelling being done. Don't want to push "patch of the day" from Microsoft over VPN so users install updates themselves (not ideal but working). Policy that I can change since the country got 8Mbit as minimum Internet connection.Would be nice though to configure this more granular.ActiveX and similar "applets" need full admin right to be installed. Seen that MS is considering to allow this for standard users.Is there a way today to get around this without allowing every component. A GPO that says allow standard user to install ActiveX would be nice. Similar to allow users to install Windows Updates.Getting a script to work that maps network shares and install printers without a million pop-ups or complete failure is something that is being worked on. Not fully there yet but I see it as a bitofan issue that MS did not impletement a proper solution around this.Cheers/C
October 25th, 2007 11:17am

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