CSOonline

A look inside the Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution

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 ...
TechRepublic

Protect domain-joined computer passwords with Windows’ Local Administrator Password Solution

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

Microsoft Releases Windows Local Administrator Password Solution

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the roll out of a new "Windows Local Administrator Password Solution" (LAPS). Update 4/14: Microsoft advised against installing the older "legacy LAPS" after its April ...
CSOonline

How to securely manage LAPS on a Windows network

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 ...
Threat Post

Microsoft LAPS Tool Tackles Common Local Admin Password Problem

Experts are concerned that Microsoft’s new Local Administrator Password Solution only partially addresses the problem of identical passwords on computers in a domain. Microsoft’s release last week of ...
JournalofAccountancy

Microsoft Windows: 3 methods for recovering lost administrative passwords

Q. We have three company computers running Windows 7, and we can access them with user accounts. However, no one knows those computers’ administrative passwords, which is preventing us from connecting ...