Please send me names and or contact information to my inbox, and I will happily send to all.
I don't know that 'winning' this battle just before you leave is a good thing.
Trouble is there are TWO schools of IT thought
1) Give the user no permissions to make my life easier (as the administrator)
although this isn't the most effective for cad it works great if you want to show up and drink coffee and swap out back up tapes...
2) Give the user full admin on their local domain, have them sign Acceptable Use agreement, and walk away.
insert various and sundry User created issues from doing whatever here; some users wont ever be a problem, some will
Add-Remove permissions accordingly; and deal with random user created issues every day. So ones 'work' at work is more work.
However; if you do not want me to contact these folks AND advance your cause.
I will send you to beard the lion armed ONLY with this as your armour, shield, and sword:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=4780309&linkID=9240697User permissions required to run Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2005 and 2006
Published date: 2005-Jul-20
ID: TS100604
Applies to:
Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2010
Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2009
Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2008
Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2007
Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2006
Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2005
Issue
You want to know if user permissions are required to run Autodesk® Civil 3D® 2005 and 2006.
Solution
Under Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows XP, you must have administrator permissions in order to install and uninstall Autodesk® Civil 3D®.
To run Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 and Civil 3D 2006, you do not need power user or administrator permissions. You can run the program as a limited user.
If hearing from Autodesk isn't good enough then I will need to speak to them directly. (Warming up the Bus)