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Access rights on domain controller
Hi IemSaifi
Try the following solutions:
Manage a team who can join Computers to the Domain:
Open Active Directory Users and Computers. First create an AD Security Group for your support team for example SupportTeam-JoinDomain
Now create an OU where computer objects will be created (e.g., Workstations).
Now right-click the OU --> Delegate Control and add the SupportTeam-JoinDomain group into that and go to Next
In the wizard, choose Create a custom task to delegate
Choose the option Only the following objects in the folder
Here check the option Computer objects
Then check the option Create selected objects in this folder
The second option Delete selected objects in this folder is optional, only if they should also remove computers
Now do Next
On the Permissions page, check following options:
Reset Password
Read and write account restrictions
Validated write to DNS host name
Validated write to service principal name
Install Software Locally without giving high level domain rights:
Create another security group for example LocalAdmins-SupportTeam
Open Group Policy Management console
Create a new GPO e.g., Local Admins Support Team, link it to the OU containing your computers.
Edit the GPO and follow the following path:
Computer Configuration > Preferences > Control Panel Settings > Local Users and Groups
Here, right-click > New > Local Group.
- Group Name: Administrators (built-in)
- Action: Update
- Add members: Add the group LocalAdmins-SupportTeam
Add your support team members to LocalAdmins-SupportTeam
They will now be local administrators only, not domain admins.