Can't for the life of me delegate AD computer permissions, help please!
I'm setting up a new desktop technician role in my AD environment and want to give that group the ability to manage our workstations in AD, to include, creating, moving, deleting, resetting computer objects and joining/unjoining the domain, basically anything needed for our workstations.
I created a new security group and put the account in the group. I went to the top OU where our computer objects live, and the computers container, and went through the delegation wizard. Selected the custom settings, selected computer objects, and chose full control. I verified on the OU and computer objects within, that the group has full control including Reset Password.
The admin logs in, we confirm membership of that group, and token is fresh, When attempting to reset a computer object, he gets access denied. He can move computer objects within the computer container and the assigned OUs.
I did update the Default Domain Controllers policy to allow this group "Add workstations to domain", as we had restricted that previously. Doesn't really apply in this problem, but would come up. I've also added them to allow Computer Account Re-use setting in my Domain Controllers GPO.
I feel like I'm just missing one critical component that I can't track down and haven't had any luck with finding a good article, or CoPilot, ChatGPT, or Claude getting me over the finish line. The goal is to limit entitlement so we move our desktop tech role away from being a Domain Admin. Would love any suggestions!