Virtualbox Without Admin Rights Drivers And Controlled

This is functionality was requested about 8 years ago and provided for in windows vista on up.

Virtualbox Without Admin Rights Drivers And Controlled

There are specfic security enhancements pertaining to drivers and controlled by security policies now (Computer ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesSystemDriver Installation).

While there are partial workarounds that kinda get you there, all of them cause more headaches and other issues then they are worth.

Youll spend more time fiddling around with this issue than you would dealing with any potential compatability issues with windows 7.

And Ive found two GPO on W2K3 but there are not working because its only for non-plug-and-play devices.

However, for your specific scenario, is adding a USB device the only device they need to be able to add If so, can you control what kindbrandmakemodel of USB device IF so, you can pre-install signed drivers and allow local users to load them.

Using the GPO setting in User Rights Assignment Load and unload device drivers this below might work for you.

You MUST point to each subfolder in your Drivers folder - example servernameshareA0; etc.

All you have to do then is export the key then modify the reg file youre pushing out.

It will parse all folders in there for you and set your key accordingly.

Keep the foldernames to 1 or 2 digits to conserve characters.

Except that the way I read it, I think they are saying in the Share Permissions give full control and specify more restrictive permissions at the NTFS level which I believe is the generally agreed upon best-practice way of doing things.

I fully agree that this is a high maintenance way of doing it but dont see any other way.

I believe (but would have to verify as Im working mostly with win 7) that drivers that exist in the driverstore do not require admin rights to use - since they are already installed.

As another device driver is needed, you just add it to the share.

Redirecting the driverstore to a share makes me wonder about the stability of the client machine (what happens if the share in unavailable on startup or when a driver is requested).

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