Saturday, August 30, 2014

administrator - Program with admin needs to run under basic user domain account - managed service accounts?

I am looking to deploy a piece of vital software within the organization. This is a domain-based setup, with everyone having just basic user accounts. However, the software in question demands to run with administrative rights.


I would normally just use /savecred on a standalone computer, to provide admin access to the program while in a restricted user account, but in a domain I am not sure this will still work reliably.


I can create and use an administrative account for just this program (and hand it out to everyone), but this means I would have to manage and maintain another account with its own password. Plus, then anyone can log onto the domain using this account - not good.


However, there are such things as Managed Service Accounts that can be used - in a domain, can I use these to allow basic domain users to launch programs that demand administrative rights?


Specifically, I want users to be able to launch the program with zero additional input - no usernames, no passwords, no elevated rights. Everything should be transparent so the program just runs, despite running in a basic User account.

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