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Local Administrative Privileges

A local administrator is a person who has access to manage their issued computer. The responsibilities of a local administrator involve the operating system, hardware installations and configurations, application installations, and upgrades. In most cases, the IT Service Desk can work with the end user to install and update software and make changes to configurations. A local administrator account is only provisioned under exceptional circumstances.

You can read more about the administrative rights policy on our Client Use Administrative Rights Policy.

To apply for administrator rights on your issued computer, please fill out the administrator rights request form.