samba - Nov 2025 - Future support for ADWS, gMSA, and Windows LAPS in Samba AD

Hello Samba Team,

I am currently using Samba AD as a domain controller in a mixed 
environment and I have a few questions regarding planned features.

System details:
- Samba version: 4.23.3
- OS: Debian 13

Questions:
1. ADWS (Active Directory Web Services) ? are there plans to implement 
support for remote management via PowerShell ?

2. gMSA (Group Managed Service Accounts) ? will Samba AD support gMSA 
accounts in the near future?

3. Windows LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution) ? is there any 
roadmap or intention to support LAPS for local administrator password 
management?

Any guidance or information about ongoing or planned developments 
regarding these features would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time and for the continued development of Samba.

Best regards,
Philippe OTMANI

philippe.otmani at gmail.com

Hi Philippe.

I can answer point 2 and 3:

gMSA are supported since Samba 4.21.0
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4.21_Features_added/changed#Group_Managed_Service_Accounts

And LAPS is already working, the old one and the new one.

Exception for the new LAPS is the encryption of passwords in AD. The is 
this:
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2023-December/247489.html

I got it running with the new one with this done:
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2023-December/247491.html

Regards
Ingo
https://github.com/WAdama


Philippe OTMANI via samba schrieb am 10.11.2025 um
17:23:
> Hello Samba Team,
>
> I am currently using Samba AD as a domain controller in a mixed 
> environment and I have a few questions regarding planned features.
>
> System details:
> - Samba version: 4.23.3
> - OS: Debian 13
>
> Questions:
> 1. ADWS (Active Directory Web Services) ? are there plans to implement 
> support for remote management via PowerShell ?
>
> 2. gMSA (Group Managed Service Accounts) ? will Samba AD support gMSA 
> accounts in the near future?
>
> 3. Windows LAPS (Local Administrator Password Solution) ? is there any 
> roadmap or intention to support LAPS for local administrator password 
> management?
>
> Any guidance or information about ongoing or planned developments 
> regarding these features would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you for your time and for the continued development of Samba.
>
> Best regards,
> Philippe OTMANI
>
> philippe.otmani at gmail.com
>
>