After reading my column, "Local Admin Password Problem," a couple of readers contacted me with their own solutions to automating password changes. These solutions are far too good for me to keep to ...

If you need to reset the password on your Windows 11/10 device, you’ll be in one of two states: logged-in or locked out. In a previous article, we have explored how to reset local account password ...

I'm not sure why you'd want a local admin account on domain computers. I use restricted groups to control the who is a local administrator of these computers. Any non domain account is removed as an ...

Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPs) will solve the issue of using a common local account with an identical password on every Windows computer in a domain by setting up a random, different ...

For Windows administrators, a common practice is to have a local username and password for administration when cached credentials are not available. Learn how to change an existing configuration. In a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Chris: Is there a way to change the local admin password using encryption and group policies? I have found ways to use tools like Hyena but not something that I can get to PCs that could possibly be ...

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 ...