CC now requires admin rights, why?

we have a group of CC accounts that sit behind a corporate firewall on managed machines. up until today all CC elements were installing correctly and without a problem. we had to open up the ports to adobe at first, but all has been running smoothly.
Now however, if I open CC desktop, I am prompted with an update or quit message, if I try to update I now get told that I do not have sufficient admin rights. in truth I never did! I never needed them for adobe CC. So why the change?
To save me the painstaking exercise of asking IT to try and find out what can be done. Does anyone know what can be done to fix this problem...
what do I need to ask IT to do?
Don't say give full admin rights!
I can't believe Adobe would force a requirement for admin rights, potentially barring the corporate client market.
Any help appreciated,
thanks
Chris

I had an Unknow Server Error trying to do log-in as normal user, so I found this trick and that solved all my problems:
http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/unknown-server-error-launching-cc.html

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