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Using Visual Studio as a NON administrator of the workstation

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We support over 30 developers who use Visual Studio 2012. In an effort to make the environment more manageable, we do not allow the developers to have local admin rights to the developer workstations. However, recently, we have run into a few scenarios that seem to require local admin rights. One such scenario is using the Visual Studio Profiler.

Does anyone have any guidance/advice for deploying Visual Studio WITHOUT giving the developer local admin rights to the workstation?  If that is not the way to do it, and it is recommended to allow the developer to have local admin rights, I'll hear that too...  it is just that, I am finding no real good guidance on how to do this besides just flat out giving the developer local admin rights to the workstation. 

Being that we are a small support team, we are trying to minimize what our end users/developers can do on the workstations we deploy.

Just FYI...  we have come up with a few thoughts on how to handle this...  I found several people who have said that we could create a separate account for the developer to use so that when they need the elevated rights, they can use those credentials...  however, what is to stop that developer from always using the elevated account for everything out of laziness?  Another option was to create a VM that the developers could log into if they need elevated rights... only that VM would have the developers added to local admins.

Any guidance/advice would be greatly appreciated.

NOTE:  I am not a developer and have limited knowledge about visual studio and how to use it. 


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