localAdmin.md

This is the process for creating a local admin account for another user on an RIT-managed computer.

The first couple steps can be done either locally on the machine, or through a remote session in clientmgmt.

For a local machine, you just need to go to the start menu, search for Computer Management, and open the first search result.

For a machine that you can't directly access, open a remote session to clientmgmt, then follow the above steps to ge to Computer Management. Once there, right click on the first line in the left column of options (should say Computer Management (Local)). Then, click on the option Connect to another computer.... Finally, enter the hostname of the correct device.

Once in the correct Computer Management instance, use the following steps:

1. Open the Local Users and Groups dropdown on the left panel.
2. Open the Groups folder.
3. Right click on the Administrators option in the main portion of the window, and click on the Properties option.
4. In the bottom left of the new window, click on the Add... button.
5. In the new window's text box, input the username of the new admin account. Click the Check Names button to autofill the correct information, then click OK.
6. Click Apply, then close the dialog box, and close the Computer Management window.
7. Restart the machine. This will apply the new group policy.