Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is a legacy Windows tool that IT admins can use to manage account passwords of domain-joined computers. The company has finally updated LAPS this year and plans to bring it natively into Windows in 2023. In this article, I’ll explain how this new native version of LAPS works and...
Last Update: Sep 19, 2023
Last Update: Sep 19, 2023
Russell shows you how to audit access to LAPS passwords in Active Directory and how to establish a process for managing access to local administrator passwords.
Last Update: Jul 17, 2023
Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (Windows LAPS) is a powerful tool that allows organizations to better manage and protect their local administrator account passwords on Windows devices. This feature is available on Azure Active Directory-joined or Windows Server Active Directory-joined devices. In this article, I will explain how to configure Windows LAPS in an Azure…
Last Update: May 03, 2023
Microsoft’s new Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) is now natively integrated into Windows 11, Windows 10, and Windows Server. Windows LAPS lets IT Pros secure local administrator accounts on Windows devices, and it supports on-premises Active Directory and Azure Active Directory scenarios. With the release of the April 2023 Patch Tuesday updates yesterday, Windows…
Microsoft is investigating an interoperability issue between the new Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) and legacy LAPS policies. The company has confirmed that installing the April 2023 Patch Tuesday updates will break the functionality of both Windows LAPS and legacy LAPS on Windows devices. Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the native integration of Windows…
Last Update: Nov 14, 2022
LAPS-managed local administrator accounts can be used for remote administration providing that policy doesn’t block their use.
Last Update: Nov 14, 2022
Configure Microsoft’s new Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) tool to protected local administrator accounts.
Last week, Microsoft announced the release of the Windows Server vNext Insider build 25151. This new preview build of the Server OS comes with a couple of new features and changes, including support for the legacy Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) product and more. LAPS, which was previously available as a separate download, has now…