Hello, I am looking for a way to grant a non-administrator the right to start/stop a service without having access to the Group Policy applied to the machine. In other words, is there a way to locally accomplish this via Reg Hack or some other method? It is a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise server. Thank you for any feedback that could be provided.

Hi, You can try the subinacl.exe: 325349 How to grant users rights to manage services in Windows Server 2003 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;325349This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.