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Hi,
I am wondering what below script will do. When I searched the keywords on google it give not give me the right answer.
$SecurePasswordKey = '76492d1116743f0423413b16050a5345MgB8AE='
$key = (3,4,2,3,56,34,254,222,1,1,2,23,42,3)
$SecurePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -String $SecurePasswordKey -Key $key
New-LocalUser "admin" -Password $SecurePassword
I want to use this script to configure LAPS.
It generates new admin account with some kind of complex password. If you are with AD and LAPS, you don't need this at all.
@Pavel yannara Mirochnitchenko
Good to know. What do you advise instead?
I thought about creating a local admin without a password and let LAPS generate it instead.
second is just rename the default Administrator name with no password.
You could use Task Scheduler with GPO to create the account, just use net add commands and save them to .cmd and execute that with task scheduler.
Or use powershell but don't bother to generate secure password, use simple one and let LAPS apply its own password from there.
This may be the wrong forum for this question. Try asking in a power shell section?
Yes I have generate a simple password and let LAPS changed it.