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I'm trying to figure out if installing the Silverlight 4 client requires local administrators rights. Some pages seem to indicate that it does, but others that it doesn't. I've had already seen this question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1529130/are-local-admin-rights-required-to-install-silverlight

However, I'm asking against for two reasons. One, this is Silverlight 4 so I'm wondering if the situation has changed. Two, I'm hoping to get a link to some official documentation that states this, as opposed to just getting a "Yes it does." answer.

I've done some testing, and from what I can tell my users are able to install it without local admin rights but I'm in a corporate environment with a complex security profile so I'm not sure what the actual settings are.

This is with Internet Explorer 6 if it matters.

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Klinger
Exactly the kind of detailed answer I was looking for. Thanks. However, it still doesn't jive with the experimental installs I've done with users that are not local admins.
jkohlhepp
@jkohlhepp: I am not an infra guy, but have you checked to see if there isn't a policy in place already?
Klinger
No I haven't. It is surprisingly difficult to navigate the corporate maze to find the one guy who would be able to give me an answer to that. :-)
jkohlhepp