MattHarwood Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 Hi all, This is my first role within a school environment, and so my first opportunity to get to know SIMS.net. Yay! When I arrived, things were in a bad shape. Let's just say, I've now removed Domain Admin rights from the entire SLT. I have just noticed that the office personnel also have admin rights (local). Is this needed for SIMS? Can I demote them without SIMS breaking? Many thanks in advance Matt
Mcshammer_dj Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 if you look in your sims setupd folder you should find a batch file call simsperm.bat. This is all you should need to apply to a specific group to allow the rights required to run SIMS .net 1
MattHarwood Posted January 23, 2012 Author Posted January 23, 2012 if you look in your sims setupd folder you should find a batch file call simsperm.bat. This is all you should need to apply to a specific group to allow the rights required to run SIMS .net Fantastic, thanks Mcshammer! I'll make a new OU for them then. Appreciated!
matt40k Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 Please note that's just so they can apply the upgrades themselves. Windows 7 needs additional steps - unless simsperm.bat been updated?? 1
MattHarwood Posted January 23, 2012 Author Posted January 23, 2012 Please note that's just so they can apply the upgrades themselves. Windows 7 needs additional steps - unless simsperm.bat been updated?? I apply the upgrades through SOLUS. They're running Vista/XP, no Win7 machines in there at the moment. Could I just check - SIMS definitely doesn't need admin rights to operate day-to-day, it's just for the updating procedure? Many thanks for all your help - appreciate it!
deKay Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 It doesn't need Admin rights, no. Just file permissions on the SIMS folder and (IIRC) a file in the Windows system folder. 1
vikpaw Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 windows\temp permissions over sims.ini etc. should be fine for xp. vista should be okay, it's only win7 that gets really fussy. all the info from simsperm.bat should cover xp, and i don't think it's been updated for win7 @matt40k but there was a thread where someone was trying out a policy to replicate simsperm for win7. @MattHarwood, try it out on one of your staff and see what happens. I remember our old support team, always used to say, give them at least power user rights on the local machine, which helps with other programs not just SIMS. 1
FN-GM Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 It doesn't need Admin rights, no. Just file permissions on the SIMS folder and (IIRC) a file in the Windows system folder. I would also give rights to parts of the registry. We had a setup with addons, and they never updated properly when we only went for the above option. 1
vikpaw Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 I'm surprised Matt hasn't mentioned it, but they need very little permission if you deploy SIMS to the clients via #SOLUS3 If you use something like SLG or other third party software - you could even do away with the need to have client software installed at all.
matt40k Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 Hahaha - true, but I don't like installing new stuff around Census. I'm too much of a wimp
vikpaw Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 We're all W.I.M.P.s Gone are the DOS days, it's SIMS .net 1
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