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Microsoft’s NTLM retirement plan means IT teams should stop treating every remaining NTLM dependency as one problem. The practical decision now is to sort each path into four buckets: move it to standard Kerberos, test IAKerb for domain access without a reachable domain controller, test LocalKDC...

Microsoft’s long-running allowance for NTLM-based authentication is finally being reworked into history: the company has laid out a phased plan to clamp down on Network NTLM and push Windows environments toward Kerberos-first authentication, a move that promises real security gains but will...