Difference between revisions of "Delegate AD Permissions"

Revision as of 23:41, 9 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

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