Renaming the local Administrator and the RC

From: Tristan Leask (no_at_no.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 14:50:49 -0000

Hi all,

Our domain policy has been setup to rename the administrator accounts on
client machines when they hookup to the domain. If you rename the local
administrator account, does this stop you from using the recovery console or
not?

Cheers,

Tristan

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