Make a Service Account a Member of the Local Administrators Group

If an application requires specific user rights to run successfully, but the service account for the application cannot be assigned the appropriate permissions, make the service account a member of the local administrators group. This should give the service account sufficient user rights to allow the application to run successfully.

To add a service account to the local administrators group

  1. In Administrative Tools, click Computer Management.

  2. In the console tree, expand Local Users and Groups, and then click Groups.

  3. Right-click the Administrators group, and then click Add to Group.

  4. Click Add.

  5. Click Look in to display a list of domains from which users and groups can be added to the ...

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