Re: renaming administrator account

From: Jordan Samulaitis (jordan_at_jvsDELETEnetworks.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 16:39:44 -0600

Thanks alot.

Regards,
Jordan

"Dusty Harper {MS}" <DHarper@Online.Microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> No it will not mess up or corrupt. The underlying SID for the account
> remains the same.
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> "Jordan Samulaitis" <jordan@jvsDELETEnetworks.com> wrote in message
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> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a question regarding renaming an administrator account, I know
you
> > right click administrator under AD users and computers and click
> rename....
> > but.. what happends with all of the services? ie. DNS/DHCP/AD.  dont
they
> > know that the local admin has the rights for that? if I rename the
> > administrator account will it not mess up or corrupt all those settings
in
> > regards to who is charge?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jordan
> >
> >
>
>

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