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Managing local admin account passwords in AD and Azure AD
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Wednesday, Oct 26, 2022, 08:00 AM PDTEvent details
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
trevorjones
Oct 27, 2022Brass Contributor
Will password history be available for the Azure AD scenario?
JaySimmons
Microsoft
Oct 27, 2022There is limited password history support when storing passwords in Azure AD. "Limited" is currently defined as 2-3 older passwords.
- LAPS-Win-MacOS-UnixOct 28, 2022Copper ContributorIn SYNERGIX SEVA, password history holds 500 total entries, for each one of the three managed local accounts. Assuming you change the password every week, you can go back 10 years. Even if the device is deleted from AAD or ADDS, you can still get to the password history. Lastly, with SYNERGIX SEVA, unlike with Windows LAPS, you don’t have to enable the Built-In Administrator Account with well-known SID, to gain elevated privileges. You can use Backup Administrator account or the Local User account, depending upon the use case.