Difference between revisions of "Delegate AD Permissions"

Revision as of 00:02, 10 November 2017

Overview

Active Directory objects and their attributes have permissions just like files on a file server. You can assign permissions to non-admin accounts to perform certain tasks. A common use case for this is a Help Desk. Often times the Help Desk will need the ability to reset a users's password, or unlock an account because of too many failed logon attempts.

Delegate Control

Microsoft has created a wizard for setting AD permissions as described above, this wizard is called 'Delegate Control' and it can be accessed by right clicking an object within Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC for short).

Password Reset

In order to allow another user to perform a password reset you need to set the following permissions:
Type: Allow Applies To: Descendant User Objects Permissions: Reset password

Optionally if you want to allow the user to set 'Require password change at next logon' set these permissions as well:
Type: Allow Applies To: Descendant User Objects Properties: Read pwdLastSet Properties: Write pwdLastSet

Unlock Account

In order to allow another user to unlock an account set the following permissions:
Type: Allow Applies To: Descendant User Objects Properties: Read lockoutTime Properties: Write lockoutTime

Join/Re-Join Computer to Domain

Type: Allow Applies To: This object and all descendant objects Permissions: Create computer objects

Type: Allow Applies To: Descendant Computer Objects Permissions: Reset password

Type: Allow Applies To: Descendant Computer Objects Permissions: Validated write to DNS host name Permissions: Validated write to service principal name

Type: Allow Applies To: Descendant Computer Objects Properties: Read account restrictions Properties: Write account restrictions

Move Computer Object

Type: Allow Applies To: This object and all descendant objects Permissions: Create computer objects (on the destination OU) Permissions: Delete computer objects (on the source OU)

Type: Allow Applies To: This object and all descendant objects Permissions: Write all properties

Note: I found a situation where you may also need the 'Delete Subtree' permission as well if the computer object contains subobjects.

Reference

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754542(v=ws.11).aspx

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/6477.how-to-view-or-delete-active-directory-delegated-permissions.aspx

https://morgansimonsen.com/2013/12/17/delegating-computer-object-management-tasks-2/