[ryanmolden]

>VS required them to attach debuggers to processes

I don't believe this is entirely true. VS will sometimes claim you need to be an admin and offer to restart as an admin, but you can click ignore in that dialog and debugging will work just fine. The one exception is if you are running as non-admin trying to attach to a higher privilege process, in which case you would need to be able to attain the same privileges as the thing you are trying to attach to, for obvious reasons.

[rbanffy]

Since it was a long time ago, I am not sure exactly what we tried and why we failed, but I can tell you we tried hard. Corporate IT didn't like us much for having computers they couldn't manage.