Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Improvements in Distributed Administration

For remote or branch offices that do have IT personnel in the remote locations, administration and management tasks have been challenging as related to the distribution of proper security rights. Either remote IT personnel were given full domain administrator rights when they should have only been given limited to rights specific to their site or administrators were not given any administrative rights because it was too difficult to apply a more limiting role.

Windows Server 2012 Active Directory has now defined a set of rights specific to branch office and remote site administrators. Very similar to site administrators back in the old Exchange Server 5.5 days—when an administrator could add users, contacts, ...