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Aragorn · 23-10-2006, 22:24

My initial thoughts are with 10000 users, why aren't you using Active Directory. AD would allow you to enforce group policies on all the clients meaning you could add the global groups to local admin automatically. AD would allow a huge amount of other activities to be automated/audited. You probably wouldn't need to manually connect to the C$ drive to fix most problems, but you could enable auditing for the local admin group via AD.
My AD skills are very rusty and yes it would cost to implement but with 10000 XP users you would be well advised to go the AD route.

23-10-2006, 22:24	#2
Aragorn Inactive Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Minas Tirith, Gondor Age: 60 Posts: 3,458	Re: Auditing usage of C$ admin and remote registry? My initial thoughts are with 10000 users, why aren't you using Active Directory. AD would allow you to enforce group policies on all the clients meaning you could add the global groups to local admin automatically. AD would allow a huge amount of other activities to be automated/audited. You probably wouldn't need to manually connect to the C$ drive to fix most problems, but you could enable auditing for the local admin group via AD. My AD skills are very rusty and yes it would cost to implement but with 10000 XP users you would be well advised to go the AD route.