# Domain Admins ## General Mitigations * Do not allow or limit login of DAs to any other machine other than the Domain Controllers * If logins to some servers are necesarry, do not allow other administrators to login to that machine * Never run a service with Domain Admin privileges as it makes many credential theft protections useless in case of a service account ## Temporary Group Membership * Temporarily add user to a group * Requires `Privileged Access Management` Feature to be enabled which can't be turned off later ```powershell Add-ADGroupMember -Identity 'Domain Admins' -Members newDA -MemberTimeToLive (New-TimeSpan -Minutes 20) ``` --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wiki.bufu-sec.com/active-directory/detection_and_defense/domain_admins.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.