I'm not sure why you'd want a local admin account on domain computers. I use restricted groups to control the who is a local administrator of these computers. Any non domain account is removed as an ...

In my Tech Insight article in November, I discussed the issue of managing privileged accounts within an enterprise. One area I didn't really touch on was how to protect the local administrator ...

Should only 1 person (a outside contractor) be the ONLY person who has access to a domain administrator account? One other person does have some IT responsibilities. She only has a regular domain user ...

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 ...

After reading my column, "Local Admin Password Problem," a couple of readers contacted me with their own solutions to automating password changes. These solutions are far too good for me to keep to ...