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Local admin on a DC

On my DC I do not have the usual local users and groups folder within computer management. I want to give a user local admin rights in this machine. How do I do this?

Neil Russell

There is no such thing as a local computer administrator on a domain controller.

Steven Carnahan

Domain controllers have NO local users and computers. Unless there is a specific need such as a DC being used as a file server, it is not a good idea.

Suliman Abu Kharroub

try to run:

lusrmgr.msc

it will bring the local users and computer, but I had not tried it on DCs.

Kimba123

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In order create an account within Backup Exec it requires the AD account has domain and local admin rights to the computer. An I right in thinking, then, that this 'local' term refers to the built in administrators security group? Is this the same as a local admin?

Steven Carnahan

DC's use the domain admin account (members of the the group) as the local admin.

You can set specific rights to users through AD that are needed for the DC/Backup Exec. Normally you would create a service account for this purpose.

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