Windows Administration Resource Kit: Productivity Solutions for IT Professionals

5-8: Scripting the Delegation of Active Directory

Solution overview

Type of solution	Guidance
Features and tools	Scripting, Dsacls
Solution summary	Understand the importance of scripting the delegation of Active Directory, and identify a simple approach that uses Dsacls.
Benefits	Scripting the delegation of Active Directory provides numerous benefits to the enterprise, the most important of which are consistency, transferability between lab and production environments, and documentation of delegation.

Introduction

In the early days of Windows 2000, I sat in a room with the top Microsoft administrators of a major Fortune 500 company. Our goal was to apply permissions to implement the corporate administrative model across a distributed organizational unit ...