Yet I can't for the life of me seem to find a recommended/supported means of doing this now. At least not in a 2008R2 or newer domain. I'm loath to go touch every single workstation on the domain ...

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 ...

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

Our department has seen 5 different leaders in the last 3 years. And of course each one wanted to use their own password combination to the domain and local machine admin accounts.<BR><BR>Now I come ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows finally includes a tool to manage local admin passwords, but admins will still need to do some work to make it useful. Explore Get the web's best business technology news, tutorials, reviews, ...

A bug has been discovered in macOS 10.13.2 that allows you to unlock the App Store system preferences using any username and password as long as you are logged in as a local admin. This means that if ...