Protected Users and protected accounts
Observed content change
9 removed passages (about 70 words). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines, prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.
May need admin actionCheck whether new requirements apply to your setup; check the dates against your plans.
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Microsoft's wording from Microsoft source, © Microsoft Corporation, under CC BY 4.0. ChangeIntel marks removed and added words, drops formatting and shortens long unchanged stretches.
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Sections to inspect
- Guidance about how to configure protected accounts
- Feedback
- Additional resources
Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.
Why this was flagged
The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: dates and deadlines, prerequisites. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.
Observation details · observed 13 Oct 00:39 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- 13 Oct 00:39 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 23 Sep 2025 17:34 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 00:28 UTC
- Next check due
- 21 Oct 00:28 UTC
Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.
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Timeline
From the capture of 13 Oct 00:39 UTC- 14 undated sections
- 18 with conditions
- 12 recorded changes
Settings and overrides named on this page
Registry values, policies and cmdlets the source mentions, with the dated steps that name them. Read the source for the values to set.
AllowedToAuthenticateFromAllowedToAuthenticateToPowerShellAdd-ADGroupMember
Requirements, exceptions and scope
PowerShellAdd-ADGroupMemberProtected Users is a new global security group to which you can add new or existing users. Windows 8.1 devices and Windows Server 2012 R2…
- Provide DC-side protections for services and computersRequirementExceptionRecommendation2 conditions5 passages
- Create a user account audit for authentication policy with ADACRequirementException2 conditions3 passages
AllowedToAuthenticateFromAllowedToAuthenticateTo
Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.
How this timeline changed
Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.
Observed history and review priority
Captured 13 Oct 00:39 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:11 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.
Review priority. Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review
0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 0 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 24 hours.
Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.
Retained observations · 12
Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.
- 13 Oct 00:39 UTC · 39 candidates
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC · 42 candidates
- 9 Jul 2025 17:07 UTC · 39 candidates
- 6 Jan 2025 16:31 UTC · 39 candidates
- 3 Nov 2024 13:31 UTC · 39 candidates
- 22 Oct 2024 16:23 UTC · 39 candidates
- 8 Aug 2023 11:18 UTC · 39 candidates
- 17 Jul 2023 09:36 UTC · 39 candidates
- 27 Jul 2021 15:51 UTC · 39 candidates
- 17 Dec 2020 06:01 UTC · 39 candidates
- 7 Aug 2020 18:15 UTC · 39 candidates
- 30 Jul 2020 17:09 UTC · 39 candidates
Microsoft's edits
History on GitHubCommits to the page's source in MicrosoftDocs/windowsserverdocs, with Microsoft's own messages. Commit dates can be hours or days before Learn publishes the change. ChangeIntel keeps a copy of each diff, so an edit stays readable here if GitHub stops serving it. Read 19 Oct 23:56 UTC.
Related public evidence
No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.
Retained observations
- 13 Oct 00:39 UTC · shown above
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC
Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.
What changed
First observed 18 Oct 2026No field changes in the recorded history.
Cite this recorded revision to keep the same title, summary, facts and links when the page changes.
A day selects the latest observation by the end of that UTC day; today's selection can change until midnight. History starts when this installation records it.