Using CRM 2016 on premise v 8.0.1.97
During a post update operation on a child entity where a date field is entered, in some cases we will also update the parent entity (two option set fields for a state and status). The owner field of the parent entity is not being updated in the UI. However, it seems with CRM 2016 an update to the parent seems to also make an ownership change - in this case from owner A to owner A. The issue is that the user does not have the assign privilege even though ownership is not really being changed to a different user.
We don't want to grant assign privilege to the user or the security role these users typically have.
Updating the child record with sys admin with auditing on I can see the owner update takes place . In 2011 performing the same operation there is no owner update in the audit history.
Any suggestions to work around this ?