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There is a debate going in our department to remove local admin rights to the development workstations we use. I believe this will cause problems for the developers when trying to debug or run other tasks in Visual Studio but I can’t put my finger on any one thing to support my argument.
What features or tasks require Visual Studio to run under a local admin account?
What do you think?
Visual Studio is designed to run in an environment without the need for administrative permissions. In general it does a good job at this and really only requires admin permissions when forced by the underlying operating system. Here are the few places I’m aware of that require this out of the box
I’m sure there are a few more but these are the ones that come to mind. Note many of these can be worked around by making the scenario more limited user aware.