We have several users that need to use SQL Server Management Studio and Microsfot Visual Studio 2010. These both need to Run As Admin. However, the users are accessing them through a terminal, Serverw 2012 R2. I can make a new shortcut using runas /savecred but that would require copying that shortcut to all their profiles, then logging in as each user and launching it once in order to provide the password. It works, but it's not terribly elegant and I don't like resetting someone's terminal password just to do this.
Is there a better way to allow these to run as admin, provide them with the needed rights, or reduce their need for it? I know they touch certain things that require rights. I've already tried setting the shortcut and then the app to Run As Admin but it still prompts the user. We've also tried setting it up as an automated task, but all that did was launch the process not the application completely.
The hang up is we've migrated these users from 2003 to 2012 and this is preventing them from doing any work.
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I'm also told that even with the added runas credentials, when a user went to deploy, it also gave them a message that they didn't have enough rights.
Ben Rollman