Adding Local Administrator Account Through Group Policy

I wanted to deploy SCOM 2012 agent to all our Windows workstations and servers and I want to use a domain account which also a local administrator on each of workstation/server. Instead of adding the account to the local administrator group manually, the way to do it is to use Group Policy to assign my newly created Domain User account as the local administrator on each workstation/server. You can do this using Windows 2008 or Windows 7 Group Policy Console.




Go to Control Panel Settings then click on Local Users and Groups as shown below.

If you have never done, you need to right click - New - Local Group. Then choose Administrator (built-in) and choose Update for action then click on Add button to add you account as the local administrator group.