Automating and Securing Windows LAPS for Azure AD/Intune

I’m not writing a post covering Windows LAPS or how to set it up, there are many excellent articles out there which have you covered.

For this one, you can automate the setup, not only of the LAPS policy, but also creating a new local administrator on the device to use with it. It will even toggle the setting in AAD if you haven’t done so already!

The default configuration for Windows LAPS is to re-enable the default local admin (and you can also rename it), but the SID remains the same so fo extra security we will create a whole new user account.

And here is the new script. As usual you can find it on GitHub Here

Or on the PSGallery

Install-Script -Name configure-laps-intune

This script can take an account name parameter at the command line, or if one isn’t passed, it defaults to “lapsadmin”.

Whilst LAPS will handle the password moving forward, we want it to be secure from the start so it generates a random 20-digit password to be extra careful.

LAPS is then configured with these settings (the account name will match anything sent in the parameter)

LAPS Setting Screenshow
Backup to Azure AD Only
Password age 30 days
Admin account name lapsadmin
Fully complex 20 character password
Reset upon expiry

Finally, it assigns both policies to All Devices

11 thoughts on “Automating and Securing Windows LAPS for Azure AD/Intune”

  1. Hi Andrew,

    Firstly thank you for this article & script.

    Please excuse my ignorance, as I am new to this, but once it password has been randomly selected, where would I be able to find the password when I need to log in with the local admin account?

    Thank you

    Reply
    • Hi,
      If you look at the Device details in Intune there is a new menu item called “Local Admin Password”. That will display the password for you.
      You can also access it through Azure AD Devices as well if you would prefer

      Hope this helps

      Reply
  2. Sorry one further question. Will this setting automatically apply to any future devices that are connected to our Azure AD

    Reply
  3. Hello Andrew,

    I have enabled it in the Azure tenant and then created the policy, however getting error “rotateLocalAdminPassword Failed” any idea?

    I have checked for other conflicting policies and disabled any that could be.

    I have an account created with that name.

    I have re-created the policy and left it with the default admin account to see if that works.

    all to no avail.

    Reply

Leave a Comment