Would you like to learn how to delegate access to create a GPO? In this tutorial, we will show you how to allow a user to create a group policy in the Active Directory domain.

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Tutorial Windows – Delegate permissions to create a GPO

As an administrator, open the Group policy manager.

Windows - Group Policy management

Access the folder named Group Policy Objects.

WINDOWS - GROUP POLICY OBJECT

Access the Delegation tab and click on the Add button.

AD - GPO DELEGATION

Enter the desired username.

AD - DELEGATE GPO CREATION

Create a new GPO using this user account.

USER - DELEGATE GPO CREATION

The user is not able to link a group policy to an organizational unit.

You learned how to delegate permissions to create Group policies.