The Delegation request type enables a department administrator to modify permissions on an organizational unit in a department OU. A department administrator can submit a delegation request to add or remove one of the defined permissions sets called delegations which are detailed in the Delegations Available section below. A department administrator can request multiple delegations by submitting multiple requests.
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The Active Directory team maintains a set of PowerShell scripts at https://github.austin.utexas.edu/eis1-aad/RequestsByAttribute to assist department administrators with this process. These scripts must be run on a Windows system joined to the Austin Active Directory and the system must have the Active Directory PowerShell module installed. - NewAdd-ADDelegationRequest.ps1 - creates submits a new delegation request for a department
- Remove-ADDelegationRequst.ps1 - remove a pending delegation request for a department
Request a delegation- Download the scripts in the RequestByAttribute repo to a local directory.
Start a PowerShell session as a department administrator. | Info |
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Complete the following steps in this PowerShell session unless instructed otherwise |
- Navigate to the directory where the RequestByAttribute scripts are located.
Run the following commands to request a delegation: | Info |
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The following example would be run by EXAMPLE-abc123 who is a department administrator in the EXAMPLE department and to submit a request that would grant the Computer delegation to the EXAMPLE-ComputerAdmins on the OU=Computers,OU=EXAMPLE,OU=Departments,DC=austin,DC=utexas,DC=edu organizational unit. The RequestedFor parameter notes that the department administrator is requesting the delegation on behalf of the xyz789 user. |
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.\Add-ADDelegationRequest.ps1 -Department EXAMPLE -Action Grant -Path 'OU=Computers,OU=EXAMPLE,OU=Departments,DC=austin,DC=utexas,DC=edu' -Principal 'EXAMPLE-ComputerAdmins' -Delegation Computer -RequestedFor xyz789 |
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Delegation Name | Object Types | Description |
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| Department | All objects | The standard delegation for Department Administrators on the Department OU. This is almost full control (without allowing adjusting permissions on OUs or the creation of user, inetOrgPerson and account objects) This can be used to sub-delegate full control within the Department OU. | | Computer | Computer | Allows the creation and deletion of computer objects and provides full control of computer objects. Allows access to LAPS passwords and BitLocker recovery information. | | ComputerCreate | Computer | Allows the creation of computer objects. | | ComputerDelete | Computer | Allows the deletion of computer objects. | | ComputerDenyCreate | Computer | Denies the creation of computer objects. If combined with the Computer delegation, the end result allows deletion of computer objects and provides full control of computer objects. | | ComputerLAPS | Computer | Allows access to the legacy Microsoft LAPS password stored in the ms-Mcs-AdmPwd attribute on computer objects | | ComputerWindowsLAPS | Computer | Allows access to the modern Windows LAPS password attributes on computer objects | | ComputerBitLocker | Computer | Allows access to the BitLocker recovery information stored in a msFVE-RecoveryInformation object under the computer object. The BitLocker recovery information is only created if BitLocker escrow to Active Directory is enabled. | | ComputerJoin | Computer | Allows joining a device to a pre-existing computer object. To allow the creation of computer objects and the ability to join the computer objects to the domain, apply both the Computer Create and Computer Join delegations.
| | ComputerRename | Computer | Allows the renaming of computers. | | Group | Groups | Provides full control on groups objects.
Allows creation and deletion of groups. Allows adding and removing members. Allows setting managed by. | | GroupMembership | Groups | Allows only updating group memberships (add and remove members). | | GroupPolicy | Organizational Units | Allows linking/unlinking of GPOs and modifying link options (enabled/disabled, enforced, order) on Organizational Units | | OU | Organizational Units | Allows the creation, deletion, and rename of Organizational Units, along with editing their description. |
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