Business Objects XI 3.1 Administrator rights

Hi:
Could someone tell me or point in the right direction for determining if any, or which Business Objects desktop application may require the user to be part of the sytem administrator group? Currently running BO 6.5 Supervisor and Recipient Manager modules, among others but we will soon be upgrading to Business Objects XI 3.1 - I know we need administrator rights to install so I'm onl asking about running the applications - thanks

Hi Darlynn,
administrator rights (on OS side) are not required in order to run most BOBJ dekstop applications (e.g Universe Designer, rich WebI client, DeskI client). Still you have to take care eventually of firewall issues if you have a firewall between your server and your clients.
Please make also sure that the users have write access to the temp directories used by the tools e.g. Universe designer.
You may have some issues with the Import Wizard though since it requires write access to it's installation directory (this is where its temp directory resides). That was at least the case in XI R2.
The Import Wizard is not every user's tool though.
Regards,
Stratos

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Dear all,
Thank you very much for your comments, very helpful!
@Marco - SAP Business One 8.8 client currently does not support the silent installation / upgrade. However we are currently considering this requirement and we would like to deliver it as soon as possible.
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Jan
Edited by: Jan Ruzarovsky on Sep 29, 2010 9:37 AM

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[http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/boexir3/en/xi3_bip_admin_en.pdf]
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Tim says:
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