Granting Domain Admin privileges to a cross-forest user account?
What I've discovered, that I'm hoping someone else can beat (by having these rights applies to existing objects) is:
- Establish proper DNS communication between the two forests.
- In my case, this required a DNS delegation zone and properly configured conditional forwarders.
- Create a two-way, forest trust with forest-wide authentication.
- Add the
Domain Admins@OneForest
group to theBuiltin\Adminstrators@OtherForest
group.- This effectively grants user-level privileges on
OtherForest
domain computers, and administrative privileges on the domain controllers forOtherForest
.
- This effectively grants user-level privileges on
- Create a domain-local group in
OtherForest
and add theDomain Admins@OneForest
group to it as members. - Create a GPO/GPP to add the group created in step 4 to the local administrators group on all your domain computers.