"Install updates and shutdown" option not available for non-admin

I read somewhere that the "Install Updates and Shutdown" option is only
available in XP SP2 for users that have admin rights. Why is that? I want
this option available to all of my users, and since 95% of them don't have
admin rights, they get interupted when scheduled updates occur (we can only
do them during the workday). What was Microsoft thinking when they limited
this only to users with admin rights, and is there some way around it? HELP!
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P Hoffman, MCSA, MCP, MSCE

Peter Hoffman wrote:
> I read somewhere that the "Install Updates and Shutdown" option is
> only available in XP SP2 for users that have admin rights. Why is
> that? I want this option available to all of my users, and since 95%
> of them don't have admin rights, they get interupted when scheduled
> updates occur (we can only do them during the workday). What was
> Microsoft thinking when they limited this only to users with admin
> rights, and is there some way around it? HELP!

Peter, have you read
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...2/mngaups.mspx
on how to configure this as a policy? I haven't tried it, but from reading
that article is seems that if the user has sufficient privileges to actually
install the software then the Install&Shutdown option should also be
configurable via GP.


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....Sky

Tom "Sky" King
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Thanks, Sky, but that article has this blurb in a "note" section:
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If an account does not allow software to be installed (for example, if the
account is a user account), only one option for Automatic Updates functions
while that person is logged on. That option is the automatic download and
installation of updates, which means that updates are installed on the user’s
computer at a regularly scheduled time, regardless of what type of account
the user has, or whether the user is logged on at the time.
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So, it looks like I'm SOL. Come on, Microsoft. At least give us the option
to force these updates *at shutdown* for our *non-admin users*. They have
important work to finish, too - and forcing the updates to happen while they
are working is not reasonable.
Thanks, - Pete

"Sky King" wrote:

> Peter Hoffman wrote:
> > I read somewhere that the "Install Updates and Shutdown" option is
> > only available in XP SP2 for users that have admin rights. Why is
> > that? I want this option available to all of my users, and since 95%
> > of them don't have admin rights, they get interupted when scheduled
> > updates occur (we can only do them during the workday). What was
> > Microsoft thinking when they limited this only to users with admin
> > rights, and is there some way around it? HELP!
>
> Peter, have you read
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pro...2/mngaups.mspx
> on how to configure this as a policy? I haven't tried it, but from reading
> that article is seems that if the user has sufficient privileges to actually
> install the software then the Install&Shutdown option should also be
> configurable via GP.
>
>
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>
> ....Sky
>
> Tom "Sky" King
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