In "Keys to the Kingdom," I invited input on whether or not you permitted users in your network to have local admin rights on their desktops. To date I've received more than a hundred replies that run ...

Every Windows computer has a Local Administrator account that is created at the time of Windows installation. As described above, the Administrator has full access to the Windows device as compared to ...

How do you guys handle remote users who don't have local admin access to their computers (laptops) when they need to add something like a local printer? I do have a backdoor account that I set up for ...

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 ...

We recently had internal discussions on the use of local admin and how to mitigate it. During this, Richard Diver, a Premier Field Engineer in APAC, wrote a great article how to do it. I wanted to ...

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 ...

Protect domain-joined computer passwords with Windows’ Local Administrator Password Solution Your email has been sent Windows finally includes a tool to manage ...

Windows administrators have a problem — passwords. Specifically, administrator passwords that lurk out there, identical across machines, just ready to be compromised. But there is finally a solution ...