Question : How to create a Group Policy in SBS 2008 server - to allow users admin access to local computers ?

We have a Windows SBS 2008 Server (AD,DNS,exchange )
We have around 35 users in our network.
Every user has a network id to login to there computers.

We have to do a maintenance on the computers, which require admin access.

Instead of we logging manually to each pc as administrator, I wanted to temporarily create a Group Policy and apply it to the entire domain, so that every network user will have admin rights on there local computer.

How can I do this ? Please walk me through these steps on creating a GP on a windows SBS 2008 server.

This policy is only for a limited time, we will disable later once we are done with the maitenance.

Answer : How to create a Group Policy in SBS 2008 server - to allow users admin access to local computers ?

Take a look at this KB artical as it demonstrates how to add domain administrators group to local administrators. This will work for you all you need to do is change the domain administrators group to domain users and it should work.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555026

Also here is a link to create a GPO...
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Group-Policy-related-changes-Windows-Server-2008-Part1.html
http://trycatch.be/blogs/roggenk/archive/2007/07/25/windows-server-2008-amp-group-policy-management-console-gpmc.aspx

Hope this helps~!