New security group then added into either built in administrator or domain admin group

I am having windows 2012 R2 DC so i need to create administrator group please let me know if we create new security group then added into either built in administrator or domain admin group it will work? i have tried but not working any other alternative
methods to get admin access

Controlling local group membership could be done by GPOs:
Using Group Policy Restricted Groups: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/20402.active-directory-group-policy-restricted-groups.aspx
Using a startup script that adds a domain group as member of a local group: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490706.aspx
If you have manually added a domain security group to local Administrators group of a computer and you still see that the members are not admins then you can do the following:
Logoff and logon again and see if that helps
If you are using a universal group then you be having a problem with the membership. More details here: http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/06/15/fsmo.html. You can try converting the group to a global one for testing.
Adding a user to Domain Admins group will make you, by default, a local administrator on domain-joined Windows Systems. This is because, domain admins are, by default, members of local Administrators group. However, you should make the membership of Domain
Admins group very limited and only for users who do global domain administration.
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Any ideas?

Hi Rick,
May be UAC is blocking installtion. Have it disabled and see if it helps. Ensure you have domain admin groups added into local administrators group.
Alos Check these links please.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/b5300f28-6a2a-4760-8b80-97a2da0f87c1/2012-domain-admin-user-cannot-install-programs-on-a-domain-windows-7-pc?forum=winserverDS
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Hi
I have windows server 2012 domain controllers (4 Dcs). I want to audit changes happening to domain admin group. Recently somebody modified domain admin members. I want to trace out who did this ..
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Hi,
Checkout the below steps to enable auditing for AD User and Group Changes,
1. Open GPMC console, click Start --> Administrative Tools --> Group Policy Management.
2. Right click the Default Domain Controllers Policy, and then click Edit.
3. Go to the node DS Access (Computer Configuration/Policies/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Advanced Audit Policy Configuration/Audit Policies/DS Access.)
Enable Success auditing for the following settings
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4. Go to the node Account Management (Computer Configuration/Policies/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Advanced Audit Policy Configuration/Audit Policies/Account Management.)
Enable Success auditing for the following settings
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- Audit Computer Account Management
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Remove Send-As for domain admin groups

With referring to below link.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/d2e97e64-536a-4c46-8e57-e0ac6a4ad64e/how-do-i-remove-domain-admins-send-as-settings-for-all-users?forum=exchangesvradminlegacy
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I have a user who member of domain admins group, say User A. Since we want to remove the send as for all users (including User A), I did followed the steps, Denied Send-As for Domain Admins group for User A.
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The permissions on members of special groups is managed by the AdminSDHolder and SDProp.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.09.sdadminholder.aspx
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CN=<Organization>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=<domain>,DC=<tld>
--- Rich Matheisen MCSE&I, Exchange MVP

Which unity accts can I take off "domain admin" group after install

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Is it recommended practice to add SCCM service accounts to the Domain Admins group?

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Built-In Domain Level Groups dont have permissions on domain they should on 2012

Hello,
First this is a brand new domain environment with everything running server 2012 datacenter edition.
Second I've never seen anything like the following occur in a domain environment. What I had is what appears to be a bad 2012 AD structure however so far all AD tests come back good. The problem is the built-in domain level groups do NOT offer any level
of access that they should. For example if I add a user in the administrators group, they don't have any permissions that group is supposed to have. THe same with every other builtin, backup operators, server operators, account operators and on and on. The
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Because those builtin groups AREN'T domain level groups in the way you're thinking. The Administrators group on the server gives users administrator permissions on the server, but that doesn't mean permissions on the entire domain.
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grant permissions to anything outside of the domain controller. On all non DC's the machines have their own local administrators group which is independent of the domain one, and can have different memberships.
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to have limited permissions then you need to grant those permissions either via a global/universal group, or by adding them to the relevant local group on each machine they need access to.

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My bad. I put the colon : into the when clause. They weren't there in your code. Usually I use an if condition, which is a little different.
I added some NVL logic to to consider comparison of NULL values too.
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FOR EACH ROW
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Edited by: Sven W. on Aug 9, 2012 4:14 PM

Difference between Domain Admins & Built-In Administrators Group ?

Hi,
I am new to AD and would like to seek your advice.
If a user (say Peter) is a member of the Built-In Administrators Group but not a member of the Domain Admins Group in Active Directory, does it mean that
1) Peter can still manage Domain Objects but with some limitations ? What he cannot manage ?
2) Peter can remote access all workstations and servers in the Domain ?
Thanks

See:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc756898(v=WS.10).aspx
Administrators:
Description: Members of this group have full control of all domain controllers in the domain. By default, the Domain Admins and Enterprise Admins groups are members of the Administrators group. The Administrator account is also a default
member. Because this group has full control in the domain, add users with caution.
Default user rights: Access this computer from the network; Adjust memory quotas for a process; Back up files and directories; Bypass traverse checking; Change the system time; Create a pagefile; Debug programs; Enable computer and user
accounts to be trusted for delegation; Force a shutdown from a remote system; Increase scheduling priority; Load and unload device drivers; Allow log on locally; Manage auditing and security log; Modify firmware environment values; Profile single process;
Profile system performance; Remove computer from docking station; Restore files and directories; Shut down the system; Take ownership of files or other objects.
Domain Admins:
Description: Members of this group have full control of the domain. By default, this group is a member of the Administrators group on all domain controllers, all domain workstations, and all domain member servers at the time they are
joined to the domain. By default, the Administrator account is a member of this group. Because the group has full control in the domain, add users with caution.
Default user rights: Access this computer from the network; Adjust memory quotas for a process; Back up files and directories; Bypass traverse checking; Change the system time; Create a pagefile; Debug programs; Enable computer and user
accounts to be trusted for delegation; Force a shutdown from a remote system; Increase scheduling priority; Load and unload device drivers; Allow log on locally; Manage auditing and security log; Modify firmware environment values; Profile single process;
Profile system performance; Remove computer from docking station; Restore files and directories; Shut down the system; Take ownership of files or other objects.
These groups are the most powerful in a domain and should NOT be used for day-to-day (lower level) administration. That's the beauty of Active Directory Domain Services. You don't need god-like rights to operate a domain (create users, groups,
manage attributes, etc.) and should not use these accounts for this kind of administration.
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Security Settings for two admin groups with shared service

Hi all,
I use Essbase Administration Services 11.1.2 and Hyperion Shared Services Console 11.1.2.0.73 (Drop 17)
Access Rights are granted via Groups in Hyperion Shared Service Console.
We have two admin groups.
AccessGroup 1: admin rights on some cubes (A) and read rights on all others (B).
AccessGroup 2: admin rights on (B) and read rights on (A).
If someone of AccessGroup 1 copies a cube of (A) – Fin_rep for example – wether AccessGroup 1 nor AccessGroup 2 can even see the cube (and i dont even mention admin rights) execpt the one who copied it.
Settings in Shared Services Console:
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- AccessGroup 1 has role "ApplicationManager" and "AccessManager" for all cubes which they should administrate (A)
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Nested User Groups (Groups In Groups) to add in Local Built-in Administrators group of a workstation

Hi,
I'm a little bit confused with the way Microsoft design the nested groups.
Scenario:
We implement Restricted groups group policy to control the members of built-in Administrators group of every workstation in our office. The design was, to make managers domain user account to be member of built-in Administrators group of their subordinates
workstations if ever they need administrative rights. So, result was there were many group policies created because we have some 30 departments. We come up to the solution that we create a domain global security group and add all the managers account as members
and corporate help desk group, create a one single policy and join the created global security group, corporate help desk group and domain admins group to the built-in Administrators group of every workstation.
Problem:
We test the policy before we implement it, and a member of our created global security group successfully done an administrative action. But when we implement it, some manager user account doesn't recognize as administrator to the workstation. We did a little
bit of research and supports the idea that nested groups was not good in the implementation of Nested groups.
http://bittangents.com/2010/07/13/nested-user-groups-groups-in-groups-built-in-local-groups-issue/
Question:
Why is there a different effect of the policy? In our testing environment, it was successful, even a member of a nested group successfully done an administrative action, but some members of the global group declared as local Administrator group of the workstation
was not?
Appreciate any feedback.
thanks.

> when we implement it, some manager user account doesn't recognize as
> administrator to the workstation.
How many group memberships does this account have?
run "dsquery user -samid <userid> | dsget user -memberof -expand" to
enumerate.
If the number is above 80 or 100, you might experience token bloat:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/shanecothran/archive/2010/07/16/maxtokensize-and-kerberos-token-bloat.aspx
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