Sanitized validation evidence

Windows LAPS & Advanced Group Policy

A recruiter-friendly view of the evidence used to validate the project. Managed passwords and authentication secrets are intentionally excluded.

Validation summary

What was directly observed

Schema

Post-extension validation returned all six modern Windows LAPS schema attributes, including encrypted password and expiration attributes.

Group Policy

WS01 applied GPO - Workstations - Windows LAPS. Effective policy used Active Directory backup, a 30-day password age, 14-character complexity policy, encryption, and the managed LocalAdmin account.

Encrypted retrieval

ComputerName        : WS01
Account             : LocalAdmin
Source              : EncryptedPassword
DecryptionStatus    : Success
AuthorizedDecryptor : JFAD\GG-LAPS-Password-Readers

Least privilege

A standard user in GG-LAPS-Password-Readers successfully retrieved LAPS metadata through delegated credentials. A separate unauthorized standard user received no LAPS record.

Forced rotation

Event IDs 10014, 10020, 10018, and 10004 documented the administrator-initiated rotation, local account update, Active Directory backup, and successful policy processing.

AD attribute presence

Name                     : WS01
EncryptedPasswordPresent : True

The encrypted password value itself was never displayed in public evidence.

Security boundary

Evidence proves configuration and behavior, not secret disclosure.

No managed LAPS password, domain password, token, VPN credential, private key, recovery key, or other authentication secret is published.