Add a domain user as the local admin with a script.

If you need to automate the attribution of local admin rights, use the following script, that will save you quite a few clicks:

Dim DomainName

Dim UserAccount

Set net = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network")

local = net.ComputerName

DomainName = "CONTOSO"

set group = GetObject("WinNT://"& local &"/Administrators")

UserAccount = InputBox( "Please enter the username (first.last) of the local admin or cancel (the user must exist in AD)" )

on error resume next

group.Add "WinNT://"& DomainName &"/"& UserAccount &""

CheckError

sub CheckError

if not err.number=0 then

set ole = CreateObject("ole.err")

MsgBox ole.oleError(err.Number), vbCritical

err.clear

else

MsgBox "User added to the local Admin Group"

end if

end sub

Namaste.

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