Re: Disabling Administrator Acount



Don't you think it's better to rename the default administrator account instead of disabling it?


jamestulloch wrote:
Hello All,

The best practise for securing AD is to disable the administrator
acount. Clearly you will need in advance to have created a sufficient
number of other administrators so that you reduce the chance of
locking yourself out completely.


However, are there other issues that you might run into. Is the
administrator account referenced directly anywhere, on the box, in
the
regsitry or within AD that could cause issues.


I have created a user account with the same group membership as
"administrator" but still occassionally have problems that seem to
point towards permissions issues.


Any thoughts?


Cheers


James

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