Staff blocked from running EXEs - how to bypass for 1 teacher

[SteveB_NI]

One of our members of teaching staff requires the ability to run .exe files to showcase some Flash design work. As default on Win Server 2008R2 & Win7 clients they seem to be blocked to everyone except for administrators (i.e. me).

 

Even whenever I want to run an EXE I have to right click > run as administrator. Now this automatically runs for me at this point, but when he does that it obviously prompts him for a username & password.

 

I've tried adding him as local administrator rights to that particular workstation but it makes no difference - he still gets prompted for a domain administrator username + password.

 

Any ideas please?

[Joanne]

I guess create a new OU for him on AD and then give him different group policies to other people?

 

It puzzles me as to why the local administrator thing wouldn't work though... weird.

[SteveB_NI]

Very bizarrely, it works fine with Right-click > Run as Administrator with his local admin elevation on 1 type of computer, but not the model of computer that he uses to teach...

[Joanne]

different images? Could try re-imaging the machine he uses to teach if it isn't too much hassle?

[SteveB_NI]

Yeah different images... just tried again adding him to local admin & it's now working. Very strange! Thanks for your help!