How to install softwares without admin rights

How to install softwares without admin rights software#

You should control the install at all times. If you have enterprise you can use applocker if admin permissions are needed for that one app you can do it just for that user on that computer.

How to install softwares without admin rights software#

Your COE will go out the window and you would be supporting unknown software that may have some extra baggage like virusвЂ™s and malware.

I would never give my users install rights.

If your organisation starts to establish a software portfolio management, it will specify more criteria and stakeholders in the approval process! And as long as you don't have such a software portfolio management, how do you know that all software used at your organisation is accordingly licensed and not posing any security threat to your organisation? Neither would I want to continue having 30+ different tools operating in the organisation all for the same identical purpose. There exist software deployment tools which may be configured to run specific and authorized tasks in priviledged context while the rest in standard context which would address the needs for those users having lost local admin rights. Such a management policy shifts of chaotic to defined which is considered more mature and professional. But even at organisations with local admin rights, they changed policies to define which kind of users will keep those local admin rights while most others were in transition of losing it. I've been working at organisations with local admin rights even for non-administrators and at organisations having limited and managed access to admin rights. It is depending on your management policy if local admin rights are bad practice or expression of appropriate and practical implementation of that management policy unless forced by regulations that such management policy isn't assessed as compliant nor acceptable. Why would you then want to get rid of the practice of local admins if you don't fix the management policy first? So sounds like a chaotic management policy. Of course we review the need and check if the software is legit by itself. The requests are legit and we hardly limit the allowed software. Now the ticket wave started because people request us to install this and that software. We recently started to get rid of the bad practice of users being admins on their machines.