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Automatic Account Management

Easier managing account management modes for Windows LAPS

April 7, 2025 by Peter van der Woude

This week is a follow-up on a post of about a year ago about using the automatic account management mode of Windows LAPS. That time the post was all focused on the preview functionality that was available within Windows and that could be configured by using custom configuration profiles. This time it’s all about the general available functionality in Windows and Microsoft Intune. Windows LAPS can be used to help organizations with securing the built-in local administrator account that is available on each Windows device. The account management mode provides more flexibility on top of that, as it can be used for creating, configuring and managing a specific target account. That includes the ability to configure the target account, randomizing the account name, and configuring a …

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Using automatic account management mode of Windows LAPS

February 19, 2024February 19, 2024 by Peter van der Woude

This week is sort of a follow-up on a post of about a year ago about getting started with Windows LAPS. That time it was really focussed around the basics of managing the password of the specified local administrator account. This time it’s all about recently introduced features to take that management to another level. An important part of those new features is the account management mode. The account management mode can be used for creating, configuring and managing the target account. Besides that, those new features also include an improved readability password dictionary, a new passphrase feature and a new image rollback detection feature. All of those features are focussed on even better protecting those local administrator accounts. This post will focus on probably …

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I'm Peter van der Woude, born in 1983 and I'm living together with my wife and two sons in the Netherlands. I work as a Principal Consultant at InSpark and my main focus is helping customers in their road to a modern workplace (using Microsoft Intune).

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