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Windows Office Hours: October 20, 2022

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Get answers to your questions about managing the Windows devices used by remote, onsite, and hybrid workers across your organization, and keeping those devices up to date effectively! Get tips on rol...
Heather_Poulsen
Updated Sep 16, 2022
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Joe_Lurie
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Oct 20, 2022
Are these joined to a n Active Directory domain or to Azure AD? Or are they all standalone devices?
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Upendra_Singh
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Oct 20, 2022
these are join both ad and aad but i want enable built- administrator account which is disable
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    Oct 20, 2022
    Understood. If these are Active Directory joined, there should be a domain admins group embedded into the local Administrators group. For the Azure AD joined (and for the domain joined, you can go old school and send a script to the devices: net user "Administrator" /active:yes Again, I'd caution that a best practice is to not enable the default Admin account.
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      Upendra_Singh
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      Oct 20, 2022
      thank you let me test it out
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    Upendra_Singh
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    Oct 20, 2022
    Can i have answer for this so i can test it out and see the behaviour
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      Oct 20, 2022
      I answered above in my last reply.
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        Upendra_Singh
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        Oct 20, 2022
        Hi Joe, Looks good with powershell, is there any GPO setting which can work for this
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