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What? Can it be? A session on LAPS? Yes!! The Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) has been widely used by IT pros for nearly a decade to secure Windows devices, aid in device recovery, and s...
Heather_Poulsen
Updated Dec 27, 2024
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Rob de Roos
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Oct 26, 2022
Most of the time we disable and rename de local admin account. What is your take on that vs or in combination with LAPS?
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JaySimmons
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Oct 26, 2022
That is fine. You can configure LAPS to manage a different local admin account of your choosing. This is an inherited feature from the legacy version of LAPS, not anything new in this new version of LAPS.
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    Greg_C_Gilbert
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    Oct 26, 2022
    Will it be possible to manage more than one local account on a PC? We also create a standard account that is used by support in certain limited scenarios instead of using the admin account.
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      Oct 26, 2022
      We do not support managing more than one local account, sorry!