{"id":2311,"date":"2017-08-09T19:49:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2017-08-09T19:49:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T19:49:50","slug":"how-to-delegate-control-on-active-directory-windows-server-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/?p=2311","title":{"rendered":"How to Delegate Control on Active Directory Windows Server 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, I\u2019ll show you how to delegate Control In Active Directory and all a specific user to only reset passwords to users.<span id=\"more-16019\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In this case, My client asked me to delegate control In AD to a staff member that will allow him to reset the password to users that locked their AD account.<\/p>\n<p>Lucky, Active Directory allows us to delegate almost any possible administrative task and today I\u2019ll show you how to do that.<\/p>\n<p>To get started, you will need to use a Domain Admin account to set this up If you are, Open Active Directory Users and Computers -&gt; Right click on the domain name and select Delegate Control<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ntweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072917_1004_HowtoDelega1.png?w=525&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.ntweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072917_1004_HowtoDelega2.png?w=525&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Users and Group click Add and Add users or groups<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.ntweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072917_1004_HowtoDelega3.png?w=525&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Task to Delegate, select the task and click next to finish the wizard<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.ntweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072917_1004_HowtoDelega4.png?w=525&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Done, Ask the user to log off and log on again to get the new delegated permissions<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.ntweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/072917_1004_HowtoDelega5.png?w=525&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"411\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article, I\u2019ll show you how to delegate Control In Active Directory and all a specific user to only reset passwords to users. In this case, My client asked me to delegate control In AD to a staff member that will allow him to reset the password to users that locked their AD account. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad","category-server-2016-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2312,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions\/2312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsoftgeek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}