RE: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Malcolm Reitz
a _ From: Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com] Sent: 10 June 2010 14:57 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members. yeh thats what I thought. I think they are wanting

Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Graeme Carstairs
> > -- > *From:* Graeme Carstairs [mailto:loonyto...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 10 June 2010 14:57 > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin > rights to non domain admin group members. &g

RE: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Alan Davies
7 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members. yeh thats what I thought. I think they are wanting to make sure that if someone had the admin account they couldn't set themselves up with full domain ad

Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Graeme Carstairs
yeh thats what I thought. I think they are wanting to make sure that if someone had the admin account they couldn't set themselves up with full domain admin rights, without having the account in the domain admin and local admin groups. Its a security check thing, i think they are preparing to rem

Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
or do you mean have admin rights without belonging to the local administrators group? You could easily give them all permissions and user rights normally restricted to Administrators, but that would kind of defeat the entire object of having the administrators group in the first place. On 10 June

Re: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread James Rankin
Easily, with restricted groups GPO. Just add another group to local Administrators group on the target server(s). We do this for servers that require some level of third-party support, although we keep their accounts limited to certain date periods. On 10 June 2010 14:47, Graeme Carstairs wrote:

RE: Heres a weird one - customer wants to give domain admin rights to non domain admin group members.

2010-06-10 Thread Ziots, Edward
Yes, Restricted Groups... Scope the GPO to the Location in AD in which the servers reside ( Usually a Servers OU accordingly). They will be local administrators on those servers but not a Domain Admin. Without knowing much else about the situation, Id even say that is way too much rights,