Changing Administrators password

From: x y (x@y.com)
Date: 11/13/02


From: "x y" <x@y.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 08:35:22 -0800


>-----Original Message-----
>We are in the midst of creating some well over due
>policies. Currently we use the domain administrators
>account for many of the services that we run on other
>servers.
>
>We have created a service account which we will now use
>for any administrative services, however before we change
>the admin password we must find what servers use the
>administrators account for services. If we change the
>password, services will begin to fail. Is there a way to
>see what servers have a service on it using the
>administrators account?

Besides connecting to the computers one by one using your
Computer Management MMC in Windows 2000, you could also
use Windows Resource Kit tools, assuming you own the
Windows resource kit. It's not free.

SC.EXE:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-
us;q251192

OR, you could use REGEDIT [comes with windows] or other
Windows resource kit registry utilities in a batch file to
query and export the parts of the registry pertaining to
services and the logon credentials used.



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