Strict Network Administrator

Hey all, just curious.

We have a new network administrator that has revoked my poweruser status on my primary development machine. From now on, everytime I want to register a .dll or an .ocx or test an installation package etc. I will have to submit a service request and justify the action.

Is this normal?

Do any of you have to work under the same restrictions? Would you stand for it?

Please give me some feedback so I can formulate an argument and get my permissions restored.


Thanks,
Robert J. Fucci
The University of Pennsylvania

That's absolutely abnormal and probably stems from a lack of understanding for development on the admin's side.

You should point out that development machines are inherently unstable. That's just how it is with development code. You should also point out that in order to do your job you need to be able to register and unregister DLLs.

If he's an idiot and doesn't care, complain to your boss that he's preventing you from doing your job.