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Quite honestly I wouldn't give out DC reboot privileges to anyone. Not only do you have to chase the outage (because you ARE monitoring them) but also because a lot of "lesser skilled" admins use reboot as one of the first troubleshooting steps and it tends to cover up the real problems.
 
Giving out access to stop/restart/etc specific services is fairly easy to do either through domain controller group policy (Security Settings|System Services) or through subinacl directly on the services.
 
One thing to be careful of is that most of the hardware based remote control products (RSA, DRAC, etc) allow reboot and additional access to the OS through the hardware so be careful with that.
 
We do not allow anyone access to DCs other than authentication, WINS read (and client functionality obviously), and netlogon/sysvol read. If someone has to work on a DC we demote it or have them restage it. This works well with ~400 DCs globally dispersed with 3 centralized admins.
 
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Morley, Scott
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 12:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ActiveDir] Limited DC rights/permissions

All,
 
I've got a unique (maybe?) situation here.  I need to give our service provider enough access to our DC's so that they can restart certain services (related to hardware, not AD), and reboot the server.  Obviously, I do want to hand over the keys to the kingdom to non-employees, especially when I'll have to fix any mistakes.
 
Is there anyway to give this granular permissioning on a DC without handing over Domain Admin rights?  a tool maybe?
 
Scott Morley
MCSE 2000/4.0, Exchange 2000/5.5, MCT, CCNA, CNE, CNI
Senior Systems Engineer/Architect
Global Messaging Services, Starwood Technology Center
Starwood Hotels and Resorts, Worldwide
 
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