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I'm setting up a new network for our company. It's been decided that the administrator account for the network should not also be the recovery agent; a special account will be created for this purpose. It's my understanding that with group policies I should be able to designate on a domain basis what account is to be used as a recovery agent, but I can't find any clear information on how this is done. So my question consists of 2 parts: 1) is this possible, and 2) how is it done?

Any helpis appreciated.

thanks,
scott

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by parbo

Well first you need to determine what account you are going to use for this purpose and once you have created this acount it will become memeber of the everyone group. Now since you want to give this account admistrative rights for the recovery you need to make it a member of the domain admin group. make sure you remove it from the everyone group otherwise you will have conflicting permissions and you will be limited to the most restrictive permissions.
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by den_itm

1)Yes it is possible
2)EFS Recovery Agents
By default, the local Administrator users account for the first domain controller that is installed in the domain is the EFS recovery account for that domain. You can specify alternative recovery agents for EFS. Use the Group Policy console to designate alternative EFS recovery agents by adding the EFS Recovery Agent certificates into Public Key Group Policy, which means you must first issue EFS Recovery Agent certificates to designated recovery agent user accounts on local computers.
When you are configuring the EFS recovery settings, you have two choices: you can add recovery agent certificates that are published in Active Directory, or you can add recovery agent certificates from a file thatis located on a disk or in a shared folder that is available from the computer where you are configuring Public Key settings. If you add recovery agent certificates from files, you must first export the appropriate certificates to the disk or sharedfolder that is to be used to add the files during the EFS recovery Group Policy configuration process.
To add an EFS recovery agent, in the Public Key Policies node, right-click Encrypted Data Recovery Agents, and then click Add. When the Add Recovery Agent wizard appears, add the appropriate recovery agent certificates by using the options described
here:
Options: Recovery agents
Description: Displays the certificates you choose for recovery agents.
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Options: BrowseDirectory
Description: Browses Active Directory and adds a recovery agent certificate for a user account. Use this option when the certificate is published in Active Directory.
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Options: Browse Folders
Description: Adds arecovery agent certificate from a file.
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Let me know if it solved your problem
den_itm@yahoo.com
Dmitriy

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