.NET Programming tasks that need Local Admin rights

Question

At our company all the developers have local admin rights. But now one of my newer coworkers has to justify needing local admin rights.

So he asked me what we do that requires local admin rights.

Problem is, I have the rights, so I don't know what I would not be able to do without them.

We develop stuff like ASP.NET, WCF Services, WPF apps, SSIS packages, General SQL Server Development. We also do some legacy Client Server Delphi stuff (Delphi 5 and Delphi 6).

Does any one know specific tasks that would not be possible without Local Admin rights?

Answer 1

You can't run/debug using the full fledged IIS w/o local admin rights.

You can't copy files into protected directories. May or may not be important.

Plus hundreds of other minor PITA things that we as developers do every day.