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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 PDT
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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...
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Updated Dec 27, 2024
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AakashShah
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Oct 28, 2022

If there is an issue with a device not being properly HAADJ, and the Backup Directory is set to "Azure Active Directory", is it possible that the local admin password can be reset locally, but that password is never saved in AAD? Or does the new LAPS product detect for this and not change the password until it can save the password?

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JaySimmons
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Oct 28, 2022
No this is not possible. New passwords are not saved locally on the managed account until they are first successfully persisted to the configured directory.
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Oct 26, 20228:00 AM - 8:30 AM PDT