I work in an IT audit group and they give us access to all relevant policies and settings throught an ActiveRoles client. We use our regular (i.e. user) domain accounts to access this information and ...

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

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“[LAPS] mitigates the risk of lateral escalation that results when customers use the same administrative local account and password combination on their computers. LAPS stores the password for each ...

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 ...

W2Kpro logged onto NT Server domain.<BR>I have a user who needs to use programs like ACAD, which won't seem to allow the user to run it unless he is a domain administrator. I don't want him to be able ...

Although Microsoft has a permanent fix on the way, it's possible that you're exposing domain admin account credentials in cleartext. Here's how to check for and solve that problem. First the good news ...

Microsoft Exchange 2013 and newer versions are vulnerable to a privilege escalation attack that gives anyone with a mailbox a way to gain domain administrator rights at potentially 90% of ...

Researchers have released exploits for the Windows Zerologon CVE-2020-1472 vulnerability that allow an attacker to take control of a Windows domain. Install patches now! As part of the August 2020 ...