Remove local admin rights

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You should consider carefully whether users require administrative rights on their workstations, and if they do, a better approach may be to create a separate local account on the computer that is a member of the Administrators group I am working through, and find this blurb about user administrative rights on local workstations: I have found the NIST 800-53 publication that speaks about least privilege approach (specifically AC-6(2)), but I am having difficulty finding supporting information from Microsoft. I am trying to find 'backup' materials - reliable sources, best practices, etc., that support my effort.

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They do not have the local Administrator account - it's rotated periodically by LAPS.

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My users domain accounts are members of the local workstation Administrator group.

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We're embarking on our Windows 10 upgrade in the coming months, and I'm trying hard to put my foot down about removing local administrator rights from my end-users.