Re: 2003 Domain Controller Local Administrator Password

From: Gaza (Gaza_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:21:01 -0800

Thank you for your answer.
Im talking about the local\administrator account and not the AD restore
account.
When you add a server to the domain you have an option on logging on as
domain admin or local admin. When you promote to a DC the local\admin logon
is not primitted from the login screen. However if you connected the admin
shares like C$, when prompted for a password enter computername\administrator
and the password you used during the windows 2003 server installation, the
password you used to login before you ran dcpromo.

"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

> If you mean the actual local administrator account that is used for only
> Directory Services Restore and Recovery Console you can use setpwd or
> ntdsutil. For the administrator account for the domain use AD Users and
> Computers to change or reset the password. --- Steve
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/810037 --- setpwd
>
> "Gaza" <Gaza@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:B71A490C-A7E0-479E-83F7-CA07C58E63FC@microsoft.com...
> > During the installation of 2003 you enter a admin pasword.
> > They in some cases you run dcpromo and promote to a AD DC.
> > The local administrator account and password still work.
> >
> > How do you chang the local administrator password on a domain controller?
>
>
>

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