Home /LAPS /Windows LAPS Password Lookup Tool (PowerShell + GUI) Last Updated: August 2026 A Windows LAPS password lookup tool is a PowerShell script (with an optional GUI) that wraps Get-LapsAADPassword and the Microsoft Graph API so support teams can retrieve local administrator passwords backed up to Microsoft Entra ID without using raw PowerShell or
Home ›Microsoft Intune ›Windows LAPS Intune Troubleshooting Guide Last Updated: July 2026 Windows LAPS Intune troubleshooting starts with the Windows-LAPS/Operational event log, not Group Policy or the legacy AdmPwd log. Most failures trace back to one of two causes: the target local admin account doesn’t exist yet (Event 10013), or the tenant-level LAPS toggle in
Home / Active Directory Security / Active Directory Service Account Types Explained Last Updated: July 2026 Active Directory service account types fall into three main groups: Domain User Accounts, standalone Managed Service Accounts (sMSA), and Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). In most modern environments, gMSA is the best choice because Windows automatically rotates its password
Home / Exchange / Import PST Files to a Shared Mailbox in Microsoft 365 Last Updated: July 2026 To import PST files to a shared mailbox in Microsoft 365, upload them to Azure storage with AzCopy, then run a Microsoft Purview Network Upload import job with a mapping CSV. This routes every PST into the
Home /Windows Server /Fix Hyper-V Checkpoint Failed: Missing AVHDX Error Last Updated: July 2026 A Hyper-V checkpoint failed error with a missing AVHDX file happens when the VM’s configuration stillpoints to a differencing disk (checkpoint) that no longer exists on disk. The fix is to remove thebroken hard disk attachment with Remove-VMHardDiskDrive and reattach the
Home/Active Directory Security/Active Directory Legacy Auth Deprecation 2026 Last Updated: July 2026 Answer capsule: Active Directory legacy auth deprecation in 2026 covers three separate but overlapping changes: CVE-2026-20833 forces domain controllers toward AES-SHA1 Kerberos tickets and away from RC4, NTLMv1 continues its multi-year phase-out through enhanced auditing, and Windows Server 2025 enables LDAP signing by
