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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Using object ACLs

User or group access permissions to a shared folder are managed by the ACL. Similarly, we can define permissions to AD objects by using ACLs. This can be applied to individual objects or to the AD site/domain/Organizational Unit (OU), and then the same permissions can be forced onto lower-level objects.

As an example, I have a security group called First Line Engineers, and Liam is a member of this group. Liam is an engineer in the Europe office. In the AD environment, Liam should be allowed to add user objects under any sub-OU that is under the Europe OU. However, he should not be allowed to delete any objects that are under it. Let's see how we can do this using ACLs:

  1. Log in to the domain controller as a domain admin/enterprise admin.
  2. Review the group membership using the following command:
    Get-ADGroupMember "First Line Engineers"
    
  3. Go to Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC), right-click on the Europe...
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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