Windows LAPS architecture
Timelines and exceptionsTimeline
From the capture of 15 Dec 2025 10:14 UTC · an earlier observationSource history: extracted from the page's source file at a commit; shared includes are not expanded
- 10 undated sections
- 13 with conditions
- 16 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.
CurrentPasswordVersionOverrideUpdate-LapsADSchemaOverride
Requirements, exceptions and scope
- New OS install scenario with a Windows LAPS policyRequirementExceptionRecommendation1 condition2 passages
- New OS install scenario with a legacy LAPS policyRequirementExceptionRecommendation1 condition2 passages
CurrentPasswordVersionUpdate-LapsADSchema
Microsoft's revision log on this page · 3 entries
Dates from the page's own change log or history section. They describe earlier edits, not upcoming policy.
Set-LapsADComputerSelfPermission
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.
-
Recommendation added New OS install scenario with a legacy LAPS policyMicrosoft's source, commit 79d1752
-
Recommendation added New OS install scenario with a Windows LAPS policyMicrosoft's source, commit 79d1752
-
-
No longer on the page Windows LAPS integration with smart card policyMicrosoft's source, commit d29c391
-
Workaround or override added Windows LAPS OS image rollback detection and mitigationMicrosoft's source, commit 7db337d
4 earlier changes
-
Workaround or override added Windows LAPS OS image rollback detection and mitigationMicrosoft's source, commit fcff787
Observed history and review priority
Captured 15 Dec 2025 10:14 UTC; extracted today 01:00 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c/source-commit.
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 · 18
Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.
- 13 Oct 00:39 UTC · 29 candidates
- 8 Oct 23:45 UTC · 32 candidates
- 15 Dec 2025 10:14 UTC · 28 candidates
- 19 May 2025 15:35 UTC · 26 candidates
- 19 May 2025 10:21 UTC · 26 candidates
- 25 Apr 2025 13:00 UTC · 20 candidates
- 11 Apr 2025 20:45 UTC · 20 candidates
- 13 Nov 2024 16:11 UTC · 20 candidates
- 13 Nov 2024 16:03 UTC · 20 candidates
- 4 Nov 2024 22:28 UTC · 22 candidates
- 1 Oct 2024 13:48 UTC · 20 candidates
- 1 Apr 2024 09:38 UTC · 20 candidates
- 25 Jan 2024 16:49 UTC · 21 candidates
- 16 Jan 2024 13:03 UTC · 21 candidates
- 12 Jan 2024 19:31 UTC · 22 candidates
- 11 Jan 2024 01:29 UTC · 22 candidates
- 2 Jan 2024 15:47 UTC · 19 candidates
- 2 Jan 2024 13:50 UTC · 19 candidates