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drkennetz

Absolutely agree. And the separation of powers at bigger institutions can make things difficult. I think for the general user at the institution admin rights should be restricted. Here, for example, I had to put in a service ticket to gain admin rights, but it is only because they know me. Security vs Productivity is just an interesting dynamic to me. Information services tends to hedge more towards security at the cost of productivity while developers tend to edge towards productivity at the cost of security, from my experience.

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Corey McCarty

I do enjoy the way that Windows has evolved to handle this over the way that it used to be. Just because you have local admin doesn't mean that you run everything from that privilege. Having the prompt before you run something as admin is a real benefit.