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Protected Users and protected accounts

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7373 - To provide domain controller-side restrictions for Protected Users, that is to restrict usage of NTLM authentication, and other restrictions, the domain functional level must be Windows Server 2012 R2 . For more information about functional levels, see [Understanding Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Functional Levels](../active-directory-functional-levels.md).
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75 −The RID-500 Administrator, as a break-glass account, is always exempted from Authentication Policies enforcement, even when they are assigned to an Authentication Policy Silo.
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76 +> The builtin domain Administrator (`S-1-5-<domain>-500`) is always exempt from Authentication Policies, even when they are assigned to an Authentication Policy Silo.
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7778 ### <a name="BKMK_TrubleshootingEvents"></a>Troubleshoot events related to Protected Users
7879 This section covers new logs to help troubleshoot events that are related to Protected Users and how Protected Users can impact changes to troubleshoot either ticket-granting tickets (TGT) expiration or delegation issues.
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