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

Update, Jan. 29, 2025: This story, originally published Jan. 27, has been updated with an in-depth explanation of the principle of least privilege, along with additional mitigation advice regarding ...

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 "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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I need to set the membership of local groups on our clients. Specifically I need to ensure that a domain group is a member of local Administrators on a set of clients. These clients are a mix of ...

Windows Admin Center is a free tool accessible via browser that can make remote management more convenient, efficient, and secure. A lot of the value built into Windows Admin Center has to do with it ...

These Microsoft tools help you reduce, remove or lock down admin access to improve security Your email has been sent It’s not news that the extra privileges on admin accounts make them a target for ...