Some Windows AD user property cannot be changed by AD user himself, what controls it?

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Published on 2013-11-13T02:27:49Z Indexed on 2013/11/13 3:56 UTC
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I'm curious with a question I find. An Windows Active Directory user can change his own telephone number, street address etc, but can NOT change his own email-address registered on the AD.

Using Python+pywin32 I can also verify this behavior. When trying to change own EmailAddress, I got error General access denied error .

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I'd like to know where in the AD this allow/deny behavior is defined. Thank you.

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