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  1. Install the Local Security Agent on Computers
  2. Perform Local User Inventory
  3. #Enable Enable the Random Password Policy
  4. #View View Data on Computers

Exercise scenario

You are a system administrator. Your IT manager asked you to perform an inventory of defined local users and groups on all Windows Computers in your environment. Your manager also wants you to implement a random password generator policy for the Administrator user account to improve the management of these users and groups. Finally, you need to view the local users, groups, and password data on a computer.

Enable the Random Password Policy

The Random Password policy lets you generate random passwords for a defined collection.
To set up and use the Random Password policy

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Note The Log password at server before change option ensures the password change request and subsequent change are never lost. However, there is additional overhead associated with selecting this option because of the added communication between Notification Server and managed computers.

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View Data on Computers

After the required policies have been enabled and deployed, you can view users, groups, and password information for individual computers on the Altiris Console.
To view user, group, and password data on a computer

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