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# How-to articles

Find Devolutions PAM how-to guides covering provider setup, Entra ID and Windows user providers, password rotation, and JIT provisioning.

This section walks you through setting up and managing Privileged Access Management (PAM) providers, from initial deployment to ongoing maintenance. If you're just getting started, you'll find a quick guide to deploying AD PAM in your environment, along with instructions for creating specific provider types, a Windows user provider, an Entra ID provider for either Devolutions Cloud or Devolutions Server, and a domain account provider configured through Devolutions Gateway. You can also import computers from your existing domain user providers to bring them under PAM management.

Once your providers are up and running, this section covers the day-to-day tasks that keep them secure: rotating PAM provider credentials on a schedule, configuring a provider to rotate its own password, and setting up temporary accounts with just-in-time (JIT) provisioning. You'll also find guidance on elevating management tools with a privileged account and configuring Devolutions Server PAM directly from Remote Desktop Manager.


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