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Windows LAPS

Timelines and exceptions · All guidance changes

Active Directory · Official Microsoft guidanceObserved changes retained

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.

Requirement wordingDate or deadline wording
RemovedWhat is Windows LAPS?
[removed: Note]
RemovedWhat is Windows LAPS?
[removed: Access to this page requires authorization. You can try signing in or changing directories.]
RemovedWhat is Windows LAPS?
[removed: Access to this page requires authorization. You can try changing directories.]
RemovedWhat is Windows LAPS?
[removed: Applies to: ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows 11, ✅ Windows 10]
RemovedFeedback
[removed: Was this page helpful?]
RemovedFeedback
[removed: Need help with this topic?]
RemovedFeedback
[removed: Want to try using Ask Learn to clarify or guide you through this topic?]

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

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
12 Oct 17:39 UTC
First observed on this installation
8 Oct 23:45 UTC
Last successful check
today 19:13 UTC
Next check due
21 Oct 01:13 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
Published timing needs confirmation 14 Oct 2025 most recent · 12 months ago
  1. Retired / removed14 Oct 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  1. 3 years ago
  2. 2 years ago
  3. 12 months agoRetired / removed · unconfirmed
    • Windows clientMilestoneException1 condition
      Windows 10 reached the end of support on October 14,…

Requirements, exceptions and scope

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.

37 earlier changes
  3. No longer on the page Windows clientMicrosoft's source, commit 5c1eb68
    April 11, 2023
  9. No longer on the page Windows ServerMicrosoft's source, commit 5c1eb68
    April 11, 2023
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: 6 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 · 16

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

Microsoft's edits

History on GitHub

Commits 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.

  1. Added ms.custom metadata Metadata onlyServed on LearnView diff
  2. Clarify migration from legacy LAPS to Windows LAPS (#8455) View diff
  3. Remove redundant sentence from Automatic Account Management note View diff
  4. Add note about Automatic Account Management CSP requiring Windows 11 24H2 View diff
  5. Updating laps-overview.md supported platforms View diff
  6. Freshness pass LAPS deployment and migration View diff
  7. Address review comments View diff
  8. Address warning; eliminate duplicate link View diff
  9. Refresh article View diff
  10. Refresh article View diff
  11. Refresh article View diff
  12. Tweak it View diff
  13. Improve Windows LAPS OS availability statement View diff
  14. Learn Editor: Update laps-overview.md View diff
  15. Learn Editor: Update laps-overview.md View diff
6 metadata-only edits · author, dates or topic labels, no article text
  1. Updating ms.authors part 3 Metadata onlyView diff
  2. Apply suggestions from code review Metadata onlyView diff
  3. [Scoped] Updating msauthor values part 1 Metadata onlyView diff
  4. [Scoped] Reassigning Meaghan Osagie's articles Metadata onlyView diff
  5. Updated ms.author values Metadata onlyView diff
  6. replaced jsimmons in ms.author Metadata onlyView diff

Suggested by a shared curated topic and product; not a verified connection (6 items)

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 2026

No field changes in the recorded history.

Cite this recorded revision to keep the same title, summary, facts and links when the page changes.

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