What are your Thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain?
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 What are your thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain? 
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 @eleceng 
 The basic premise of helping to stop horizontal attacks is wonderful. Last year we reviewed this as an option. In a test, it implemented well enough, but the PW was not truly encrypted. This can be better explained here:
 https://techgenix.com/case-against-using-laps/amp/
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 I like this thinking - I wonder what the solution is for a no AD, but only AAD setup is? 
 Is this something Intune can handle? Some other MS service?
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 @eleceng said in What are your Thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain?: What are your thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain? Are these local admin accounts on servers or user devices? 
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 @jclambert said in What are your Thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain?: The basic premise of helping to stop horizontal attacks is wonderful But the device is joined to an AD domain so horizontal attacks are allowed by default. 
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 @eleceng said in What are your Thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain?: What are your thoughts on Using LAPS to manage local admin account passwords on a domain? Use it. It's excellent. Tie in DUO for 2FA on critical infrastructure like DCs and the backup server(s) and good to go. 
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 @obsolesce Servers primarily but user desktops and laptops will be the same. 



