I am trying to make ordinary users able to change their IP settings on their network card. I have laptop users traveling to sites where they need to be able to set static ip. When I join the users to this group the UAC still prompts for credentials and the users credentials are not enough. But when I disable UAC completely this group does what is is meant to do. Why is this ? Is this a feature or a bug ?

Hi, This symptom is by default since it need the administrator privilege when trying to access the network connection’s Properties. If a standard user would like to access the properties, there will be a UAC window and indicate to enter the administrator credentials. This is normal. Regards, Novak

I understand that you have to have elevated rights to do this operation. But if an ordinary user (not admin) elevates it does not get its extra rights that the Network Configuraion Operators Group should give the user. If I dont have UAC enabled at all, then the user will have this rights and are able to do this operation that I am trying to delegate to the user. So my question is: Can normal user be delegated additional rights on windows 7 with UAC enabled. (by example: Network Configuration) (I know we can if we disable UAC)

I as well am running into this issue. Security is a top priority here and when our users travel I want to give them the lowest level of permissions possible to accomplish their task. However Windows 7 does not allow me to add them to the network configuration group so that they may change their IP address if UAC is enabled. I want UAC enabled, but I might have no choice but to disable due to this issue....is there a workaround?

We are now running into this issue as well. We have users that travel to Canada, Japan, as well as all over USA. Believe it or not, DHCP is not suported everywhere. The users must be able to change from DHCP to Static and vice versa, but I as well do not get a warm fuzzy feeling by diabling UAC. I see it has been close to 2 months since the last post, just curious if there were any updates out there from anyone.

Are you using Windows 7 64-bit? There is a known problem and a hotfix for this. Eli