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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators
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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators

by Jeff Stokes, Manuel Singer, Richard Diver
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
314 pages
8h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Local Administrator Password Solution

Where do you store the password of the local admin account on every PC in your domain? Options include:

  • The account is disabled, only use a domain account/group for local admin rights (what about when the domain isn't available?)
  • Use the same password on every machine, set at the time it is built (great way to allow malware to spread across the entire network in seconds!)
  • Use a spreadsheet or other centralized notes to record them for other admins to access-but it's okay because it's on a secure network share and password protected (because no one could possibly make a copy or crack the weak security of Excel, right?)

And what do you do when you want to change the password after your system has been ...

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