Windows 2008 server questions

[joeyl]

For the admins out there:

I have a test server that the user wants Windows server 2008 as the OS, so that he can test his SQL and web apps. I need to give him admin rights to the server but I don't want him to be able to add server roles (like adding DNS or AD would be a disaster on the network) is there a trick to do that?

thanks

[Crass!]

nope, if he has admin he can do it all. You can ask him politely to not add roles =)

[gdthomas]

If you have the hardware to put ESXi on go that route. If they trash it, production is not impacted.

[Selta]

Question is, why does he "need" admin rights? Heck, for that matter, why do they need a Server OS (assuming you have a dedicated SQL server somewhere, and the web apps have their own authentication etc.)