Microsoft LAPS

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How to Use Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) with Active Directory and Azure AD

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

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How to Configure Windows LAPS in an Azure Active Directory Scenario

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…

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Windows LAPS is Now Natively Integrated on Windows 11, Windows 10, and Windows Server

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…

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How to Install and Configure Microsoft LAPS

Last Update: Nov 14, 2022

Configure Microsoft’s new Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) tool to protected local administrator accounts.

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