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Posted by Joe Richards [MVP] on January 27, 2006, 10:29 pm
Please log in for more thread options Actually put me as a servop in a child domain and I will make myself enterprise
admin in not to long a period of time.
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Roger Abell [MVP] wrote:
> Sure, or even just Adminsitrators fits the posters request.
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> Joe however is correct in providing the precautionary warning, as
> either Server Operators or Administrators could without too much
> effort elevate themselves to Domain Admins (or Enterprise Admins
> if on the forestroot domain).
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> As such some feel it is better to not pretend that one has gained
> something solid by not making use of Domain Admins membership
> to begin with (so that all due precautions are attended to).
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> "Ondrej Sevecek" <ondra at my_surname dot com> wrote in message
>> Sever Operators.
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>> O.
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>>> You can't do it. They have to have admin rights to the DC and once they
>>> have that they have more than enough rights to escalate all the way to
>>> enterprise admin or anything else they want.
>>>
>>> The way this was handled in a fortune 5 company I managed 400 global DCs
>>> for (with 3 admins and a manager) was to demote DCs when hardware work
>>> needed to be done. If that couldn't occur, the DC was cut out of the
>>> forest and reloaded and the admin did the work and then it was
>>> repromoted.
>>>
>>> With Longhorn AD this will be a little easier to handle in WAN Site
>>> situations.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
>>> www.joeware.net
>>>
>>>
>>> corydch@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>> I'm running Windows Server 2003 in Active Directory environment. I am
>>>> trying to trim my domain administrators but having trouble because I
>>>> have people who administer the hardware for a domain controller who I
>>>> want to remove from the group. Anyone know of a way to give non-domain
>>>> adminis access to device manager for hardware purposes without making
>>>> them full domain administrators? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Cory
>>>>
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