I am attempting to assign rights to a service account [sys-zzz], used by
a Group Policy Management tool (3rd party) so that the service account
has the necessary rights to 'manage' all GPOs in the domain.
Aside from app specific rights, I have assigned the following rights
using GPMC scripts [scripts shown below]:
1. Create/edit GPO links at the root of the domain and all child
containers
cscript "%programfiles%\gpmc\scripts\SetSOMPermissions.wsf" xxx.yyy
xxx\sys-zzz /Permission:linkgpos /Inherit /Domain:xxx.yyy
2. Create new GPOs in the domain
cscript "%programfiles%\gpmc\scripts\SetGPOCreationPermissions.wsf"
xxx\sys-zzz /Domain:xxx.yyy
3. Edit, delete and mod security rights to all existing GPOs in the
domain
cscript "%programfiles%\gpmc\scripts\GrantPermissionOnAllGPOs.wsf"
xxx\sys-zzz /Permission:fulledit /Domain:xxx.yyy
To cut a long story short, step 2 does not appear to grant the required
'create' right [GP mgmt tool complains of an "access denied" issue].
However, if I manually (using GPMC) add the service account to the list
of objects permitted to create GPOs in the domain [instead of using the
script in step 2], then the GP Management app functions fine.
Has anyone encountered a similar issues? Are there newer version of the
GPMC scripts? [I have GPMC with SP1]
Just to add to the strangeness of this issue, if I execute the same
scripts above but against a different domain (same service account) the
3rd party app functions fine in that other domain :/
Any comments?
Thanks,
neil
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