Apps question

[yipster]

Hi,

I installed windows xp and my apps. This computer will be logging into a domain and have there are few domain users that will be using this computer. What kind of permission is needed to give these domain users permission to use the apps. I don't want to give them admin rights.

Thanks in advance

[chilifrei64]

this all depends on the software they are using.............................

[yipster]

I installed ms office 2003 , adobe cs suite, quickbooks, mas 200 client. So far only quickbooks and mas 200 client does not work correctly. Quickbooks want power user or admin rights while mas 200 wants the same but it just states error loading app. What kind of rights should I give the domain users?

[chilifrei64]

So far... So correct.. Office 2003 and Adobe CS can run as standard users. QuickBooks and Mas200 is another story

What I have done with Quickbooks and MAS90 at one of my old clients was set specific user rights assignments and file permissions using Goup Policy. This is somewhat of a tedious process(atleast for quickbooks) but if you download a registry monitor and a file monitor you will see what files/registry keys it is trying to access and it wont have the correct user rights. Modify the GP accordingly and try to run it again and search for another error. Once done with setting the permissions apply it only to the users needing it (ie. Quickbooks_Users group)..<-You make this group yourself

MAS90 was essentially just giving permissions to the registry key under LOCAL_Machine that MAS90 uses. this took care of most of my problems. I would assume MAS200 would be similar

If you are OK with just assigning Power User permissions to the users then assign this permission first and use the above process to determine the rest of the problems

I hope this helps, I spend alot of time makeing applications work as standard users.. this process was tough for me for a while. I am on about a week (actually prolly only 8 hours total)for a current problem software that requires admin rights.

Ill tell ya though.. it is worth the time now to figure it out, none of my users have permisssions to break anything. I love it.

EDIT: Link to registry monitor and file monitor

Registry Monitor:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html

File Monitor:

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Diskmon.html

Edited August 7, 2005 by chilifrei64