Re: EFS Recovery for Win2K

From: David Cross [MS] (dcross_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 05:26:15 -0700

Possibly - by default the first admin on the first DC in the domain is the
default domain recovery agent. logon to that DC as admin and check the
certificates MMC to see if you have the DRA cert and key in your profile.

 http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/deploy/cryptfs.mspx 

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"Michael" <Michaels@MSGMail.com> wrote in message
news:1fc401c4276e$f0801c30$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> I have data encrypted, need it really, really bad, and
> can't figure out how to decrypt it. I have Created a fresh
> network (Win2K DC Server, Exchange 2000) Can the Domain
> Admin get to this data? Please help.
>
> Thanx

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