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Local Admin Password Solution (LAPS) STEP-BY-STEP

Local Admin Password Solution (LAPS) STEP-BY-STEP

Today we will deploy Microsoft LAPS solution to manage local administrator passwords in computers. Its an excellent tool that takes the burden of rotation of local administrator account password or to avoid cases when all workstation have the same password for local administrator account. First we need to download LAPS from the MS download center and install it on Management Computer (Domain Controller). LAPS is installed to “%ProgramFiles%\LAPS”. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 For “Managed computers” we can run the installer to install same…

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AD Domain Rename Step-By-Step

AD Domain Rename Step-By-Step

My first blog post will be about domain rename in Microsoft Active Directory Domain. We have test domain Bigapple.local which we will rename to Bigapple.main 1. First we need to install at least AD DS and AD LDS tools RSAT from Add Roles and Features 2. Create new Primary AD integrated DNS zone corresponding to the new Domain name from DNS Manager. Do not forget to restart Netlogon service from services console so that SRV records for newly created zone…

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