Enable users to install Windows Update without Admin Rights 1

[JonnyRep]

Is there anyway without giving a user Administrator Rights on their machine to allow them to install Windows Updates?

I do not want to allow them the right to install programs as they more than likely would install spyware by mistake, as has happened before.

So really I would just like to give them rights to install windows updates and that's it.

Cheers

Jonny

 

[bcastner]

You cannot permit non-Administrators to install Windows Updates if they reach the site manually.

This is where the Automatic Update Service comes to play a role, as it is a service and has elevated privileges.

You can take this one step further and approach a nearly silent installation for non-Admin users with some Group Policy changes:

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=x...=#ZnIu5D9CHA.1512@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl&rnum=2

 

[JonnyRep]

Thanks, I had no idea Automatic updates bumped up the priveledge level.

Cheers

Jonny