Installing the Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES) without Enterprise Administrator permissions

Assume the following scenario:

  • One installs a Network Device Enrollment Service (NDES) server.
  • The role configuration fails with the following error message:
Insufficient access rights to perform this operation. 0x80072098 (WIN32: 8344 ERROR_DS_INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS

Typically, the NDES roll configuration requires, that the installing user is a member of the Enterprise Admins group. However, this is not technically necessary and contradicts Microsoft's security hardening recommendations, since NDES is not (necessarily) a system that is assigned to the highest security layer (Tier-0).

Below is a way to configure the NDES role even without the required permissions.

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