local admin rights required for software developer

• Locally site publish and test 
• Developers toolsets are often updated very regularly. Graphics libraries, code helpers, visual studio updates; they end up having updates coming out almost weekly that need to be installed. Desktop support usually gets very tired of getting 20 tickets every week to go install updated software on all the dev machines so they just give the devs admin rights to do it themselves.
• Debugging / Testing tools sometimes need admin rights to be able to function. No admin access means developers can’t do their job of debugging code. Managers don't like that.
• For configuring TNS files
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