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August 23, 2006
There are a number of articles on how to secure the local administrator account on Windows computers and most of the have the same advice, rename it, make the password very strong, etc. But I was asked this question a few days ago and after doing some reading and research I don’t really care for this approach. I think I prefer the idea of setting a very strong password, using a tool that generates a password based on criteria you supply for the local admin account and then disabling the account...
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Filed under: Active Directory, Group Policy, Security
April 25, 2006
David Power - Program manager Some pretty cool stuff, some of it is redundant. What's new? New in Vista is that GP's no longer run under Winlogon but instead run as a shared service and the service itself has been hardened by requiring local admins to have elevated privileges to stop the service, the service will also auto restart from any error. Network Awareness - policy application is not network sensitive, no longer a 90 minute wait before refresh if a DC is detected. If a system comes out of...
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Filed under: Group Policy, Security, Vista, Microsoft, MMS 2006