Removing local administrator rights is a surefire way to improve Windows security, but the politics involved in revoking users' control over their desktops stops many administrators from taking ...

During Setup, the first account you create is a local administrator and can be used for recovery purposes. If you need to sign on to Windows from Safe Mode or the Recovery Environment, you can use the ...

In my Tech Insight article in November, I discussed the issue of managing privileged accounts within an enterprise. One area I didn't really touch on was how to protect the local administrator ...

The local administrator account is a part of Windows accounts that is automatically created upon installation, and this privileged login can create challenges for IT administrators. Unlike a domain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...