Privilege Manager

Just-in-time local admin—secure elevation without slowing anyone down

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What You Can Do

Privilege Manager removes standing local admin rights and replaces them with time-bound, auditable elevation. Users request (or receive) privileges only when needed, for the exact task or application, and only for a defined window of time—so work keeps moving while risk stays low. It integrates cleanly with your Intune setup and supports the principle of least privilege.

  • Eliminate permanent local admin privileges while keeping users productive.
  • Grant just-in-time elevation to users, apps, scripts, or commands—on a timer.
  • Pre-approve apps based on executable name, app path.
  • Enforce guardrails with allow/deny rules and evidence capture.
  • Audit everything with immutable logs and exportable reports for change boards and audits.

Key Capabilities

Time-Bound Elevation

Grant admin privileges for minutes, not days—auto-revoke on expiry.

Scope-by-Design

Elevate a specific executable, installer, command, or task—not the entire session.

Session Elevation

Quiet, in-context prompts with configurable notifications and minimal disruption.

Policy Engine

Define who can elevate what, where, and under which constraints.

Guardrails

Fully customizable controls for high-risk tools and sensitive actions.

Break-Glass Controls

Tightly scoped emergency elevation for critical, time-sensitive situations.

Logs & Evidence

Who/what/when, endpoint, changes, outcome status; export CSV for audits.

User Experience Controls

Define who can elevate what, where, and under which constraints.

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How It Fits with Intune

  • Keep Intune as your foundation. Privilege Manager complements your enrollment, compliance, and configuration baselines.
  • Target with Entra ID groups and respect your existing group structure.
  • Works alongside Defender and compliance signals to enforce elevation policies

Security & Compliance

  • Reduce the attack surface: remove persistent admin rights and stop lateral movement via local admin.
  • Prove control: show auditors standardized elevation workflows, logs, and short-lived access patterns.
  • Support the principle of least privilege and separation of duties across IT and support functions.
  • Align with NIS2/CIS practices: strong access governance, traceability, and rapid revocation.

Operational Benefits

  • Fewer tickets: users complete routine tasks with self-service, within policy.
  • Faster fixes: support can grant scoped elevation quickly without handing out full admin.
  • Lower risk, less rework: strong guardrails reduce misconfiguration and malware exposure.
  • Happier users: no more waiting hours for simple installs—done safely in minutes.

Goals You Can Achieve

  • Zero standing local admin privileges across managed devices.
  • Minutes-not-days elevation cycles with auto-approvals.
  • Consistent, auditable workflows that satisfy internal and external audits.
  • Reduced malware and misconfiguration incidents tied to excess privilege.

Typical Rollout Pattern

1

Baseline & Remove standing local admin from target groups.

2

Define Policiesfor standard tasks (e.g., approved installers, printers, VPN clients).

3

Pilot with short duration and strict guardrails; review logs and tweak policies.

4

Operationalize with reports, scheduled reviews of policies, and periodic access recertification.

Have More Questions?

Users trigger elevation for a specific executable. Policies decide whether to auto-approve or deny. Admin privileges apply only to that scope and auto-expire.

Yes. Create deny rules for shells or unsigned installers and require explicit policy exceptions for controlled use.

Best practice is no standing admin. Use policies for routine tasks and break-glass elevation for rare exceptions.

User, endpoint, binary details (executable name, app path), time, duration, and outcome—all exportable.

Set short duration auto-revoke.

Yes. Target policies via Entra ID groups, respect existing group structure, and run alongside your Intune compliance and configuration.

Policies can allow cached decisions for low-risk tasks with strict durations, and queue logs for sync when the endpoint is back online.

Yes. Supporters can authorize a scoped, time-bound elevation without exposing local admin accounts.

Typically within minutes as it’s a very simple configuration, executed in a phased approach: remove standing local admin privileges, apply standard policies to test endpoints, then scale to departments with measured guardrails and reporting.

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