A little background and info: I support a number of people who for one reason or another need to be able to do things a local admin can do like install programs and start services (or more accurately allow a program they're running to start a service). All users are in the local administrators...
access control
active directory
admin rights
compatibility mode
domain controller
error message
gpo
local admin
lotus notes
openafs
permissions
security settings
service management
service start
software installation
user rights
user support
windows 7
windows vista