I think the subject says it all. My office is needing to make sure that all of the <I>local</I> NT4 and 2k administrator passwords are set to the same thing and since I'm the summer job computer ...

Windows finally includes a tool to manage local admin passwords, but admins will still need to do some work to make it useful. Image: Ivan/Adobe Stock. One of the best ways to defend your network is ...

Our department has seen 5 different leaders in the last 3 years. And of course each one wanted to use their own password combination to the domain and local machine admin accounts.<BR><BR>Now I come ...

In my past couple of blog entries, I wrote about some protection mechanisms for keeping the local administrator account safe on Windows systems. There are many reasons for wanting to keep the admin ...

Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) enables local admin passwords to be set, reset and validated periodically. Here is how to make the best use of LAPS. Passwords have always been ...

“[LAPS] mitigates the risk of lateral escalation that results when customers use the same administrative local account and password combination on their computers. LAPS stores the password for each ...