I think the subject says it all. My office is needing to make sure that all of the local NT4 and 2k administrator passwords are set to the same thing and since I'm the summer job computer lackey ...

Just wondering what people thought about how to assign passwords to the local admin of w2k/nt/xp boxes. At one company, we made them all the same. This had the unfortunate side-effect of giving people ...

Windows finally includes a tool to manage local admin passwords, but admins will still need to do some work to make it useful. Image: Ivan/Adobe Stock. One of the best ways to defend your network is ...

Windows administrators have a problem — passwords. Specifically, administrator passwords that lurk out there, identical across machines, just ready to be compromised. But there is finally a solution ...

In my past couple of blog entries, I wrote about some protection mechanisms for keeping the local administrator account safe on Windows systems. There are many reasons for wanting to keep the admin ...

Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) enables local admin passwords to be set, reset and validated periodically. Here is how to make the best use of LAPS. Passwords have always been ...