AdminSDHolder, Protected Groups and SDPROP

January 18th, 2012

Active Directory Domain Services uses AdminSDHolder, protected groups and Security Descriptor propagator (SD propagator or SDPROP for short) to secure privileged users and groups from unintentional modification. This functionality was introduced in the inaugural release of Active Directory in Windows 2000 Server and it's fairly well known. However, virtually all IT administrators have been negatively impacted by this functionality, and that will to continue unless they fully understand how AdminSDHolder, protected groups and SDPROP work.

You can read Microsoft's full article here: https://bit.ly/sixWR2

 

 


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