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I understand the following doesn't seem to make much sense, but I have a specialized piece of software that requires me to do this to properly interact with a machine.

I have a windows 2008 server. I need to add a domain user to the local admin group without adding the machine itself to the domain. Is this possible? If so how?

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This is not possible at all.

In order to grant permissions to domain users on a computer (including adding them to local groups), the computer needs to be joined to the domain.

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  • I didn't think it was. The software does not seem to be able to handle being added to the domain. It worked fine as a workgroup, but stopped working when I added it to a domain.
    – Cade
    Dec 29, 2015 at 15:34
  • Problem is the users workstations are now part of the domain. So the server no longer can communicate with the users.
    – Cade
    Dec 29, 2015 at 15:52
  • It seems like the developers did a lazy implementation of integrated windows authorization. I'll have to figure out another work around
    – Cade
    Dec 29, 2015 at 15:53

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