What is the Administrator?

Created on 2003-02-25 by Rainer Gerhards.

Members of the Administrators group are allowed complete control over the entire computer.

When a member server or a computer running Windows 2000 joins a domain, the Domain Admins group is added to the local Administrators group.

Would you like to discuss this object? Have a look at our Windows event forum or post a question there!

Analysis, monitoring, near-real-time alerting of the Windows event log can be done with by MonitorWare Agent.

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