AD users losing admin rights when working offline.

We have recently started using AD accounts on our Macs but a critical problem has presented itself.
Under 'Allow administration by' we are using a domain group called 'Domain Users' and this works fine when users are connected to our corporate network but when they are offline and not able to see the AD servers at login they lose their admin rights.
So even if you create a mobile account this settings has to be validated every time the user logs on.
It has been suggested to use the following command to correct the problem but this has no effect:
"sudo dseditgroup -o edit -a "domain\groupname" -t group admin"
Has anyone successfully found a workaround for this problem?

Yep. That is the side effect of the evolution of AD integration. Many more things are live look ups. Have you tried password protected screen savers yet? Yep, live call to AD. The reason this is failing is the domain users is an AD group and the system can not resolve the GUID without access to the domain.
In any case, there is a way around this but it is a little messy and it breaks the whole point of using the plug in to allow for a single point of control. If you are using cached credentials, you should be able to add the user to the admin group. Once again, this posses a number of problems as you are now injecting an AD user into a local account, you have no centralized method of removing admin rights from the user, and each machine requires a custom command (you need to issue the users shortname).
Now, you other option is to say, "it is a security implementation to prevent unauthorized access to the machine when it is not under the protection of out LAN." Yep, line of garbage, but the real question is, why do they need admin rights? If for installing software, that likely should not be up to them if you are enforcing a corporate standard. I generally can't find a good argument for permitting admin rights.

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>>> <[email protected]> schrieb am 1.8.2013 um 07:46 AM:
> arlorenz;2275156 Wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i checked the documentation but i could not found a possibility to
>> create an additional user with admin rights to access the Vibe
>> Management Console.
>> Does anybody know if this is possible and how to do this?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Alex
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> ml
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>
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