Renaming the Domain Administrator Account

From: Matt (-----|-----shiphter@hotmail.com)
Date: 02/04/03 

From: "Matt" <-----|-----shiphter@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:30:03 -0800

It appears that I have run across a new bug..... When I renamed my domain's
administrator account, both FRS (between sites, within a site continues to
function) and the auto reset of the built-in terminal server account began
failing and continues to fail for 3 weeks until I renamed the account to
Administrator. I haven't noticed any other failures, but am going to enable
kerberos logging and see what kind of havoc is caused there as well.
I don't know if this has always been an issue or if this is a new occurance
following a recently released "hotfix", but all of our domain controllers
have SP3 and all of the hotfixes released up to 1/15/2003.
Has anyone else seen any issues with this?

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