Guest boba Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 How can I change the password for aministrator in domain? Thanks!
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 Re: administrator password Hello boba, Like any other user account in the domain, open Active directory users and computers and here you can rightclick the account name and choose reset password. Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > How can I change the password for aministrator in domain? > > Thanks! >
Guest boba Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 RE: administrator password Under Active Directory users and computer accounts I see DHCP Administrator, DNS Admins and when I do right click, like it works for other users to get the option of re-setting the password, it does not have that. I also checked under builtin accounts for administrator but still when right click it does not have the option of resetting the password. Thanks! "boba" wrote: > How can I change the password for aministrator in domain? > > Thanks!
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 RE: administrator password Hello boba, DHCP Administrator, DNS Admins are groups, NO user accounts. On groups you can not reset any password. The administrator account is located in the USERS container. Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > Under Active Directory users and computer accounts I see DHCP > Administrator, DNS Admins and when I do right click, like it works > for other users to get the option of re-setting the password, it does > not have that. I also checked under builtin accounts for administrator > but still when right click it does not have the option of resetting > the password. > > Thanks! > > "boba" wrote: > >> How can I change the password for aministrator in domain? >> >> Thanks! >>
Guest boba Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 RE: administrator password I am looking under users container but I don't see an administrator account by itself. I have done reset to users account but can't seem to see this account anywhere in AD. "Meinolf Weber" wrote: > Hello boba, > > DHCP Administrator, DNS Admins are groups, NO user accounts. On groups you > can not reset any password. The administrator account is located in the USERS > container. > > Best regards > > Meinolf Weber > Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers > no rights. > ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups > ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > > > Under Active Directory users and computer accounts I see DHCP > > Administrator, DNS Admins and when I do right click, like it works > > for other users to get the option of re-setting the password, it does > > not have that. I also checked under builtin accounts for administrator > > but still when right click it does not have the option of resetting > > the password. > > > > Thanks! > > > > "boba" wrote: > > > >> How can I change the password for aministrator in domain? > >> > >> Thanks! > >> > > >
Guest Bill Grant Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 Re: administrator password Have you tried doing ALtCtlDelete while you are logged in as administrator? "boba" <boba@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E5ED4C25-5247-444D-91DE-B1795E2A1006@microsoft.com... > I am looking under users container but I don't see an administrator > account > by itself. > I have done reset to users account but can't seem to see this account > anywhere in AD. > > "Meinolf Weber" wrote: > >> Hello boba, >> >> DHCP Administrator, DNS Admins are groups, NO user accounts. On groups >> you >> can not reset any password. The administrator account is located in the >> USERS >> container. >> >> Best regards >> >> Meinolf Weber >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and >> confers >> no rights. >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups >> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm >> >> > Under Active Directory users and computer accounts I see DHCP >> > Administrator, DNS Admins and when I do right click, like it works >> > for other users to get the option of re-setting the password, it does >> > not have that. I also checked under builtin accounts for administrator >> > but still when right click it does not have the option of resetting >> > the password. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > "boba" wrote: >> > >> >> How can I change the password for aministrator in domain? >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >>
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 RE: administrator password Hello boba, If you search in AD in the domain for it, did you find it? Maybe the administrator account is renamed? Check your policies under Computer configuration, windows settings, security settings, local policies, security options, in the right pane "Rename Administrator account" Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > I am looking under users container but I don't see an administrator > account > by itself. > I have done reset to users account but can't seem to see this account > anywhere in AD. > "Meinolf Weber" wrote: > >> Hello boba, >> >> DHCP Administrator, DNS Admins are groups, NO user accounts. On >> groups you can not reset any password. The administrator account is >> located in the USERS container. >> >> Best regards >> >> Meinolf Weber >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and >> confers >> no rights. >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups >> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm >>> Under Active Directory users and computer accounts I see DHCP >>> Administrator, DNS Admins and when I do right click, like it works >>> for other users to get the option of re-setting the password, it >>> does not have that. I also checked under builtin accounts for >>> administrator but still when right click it does not have the option >>> of resetting the password. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> "boba" wrote: >>> >>>> How can I change the password for aministrator in domain? >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>>
Guest Bruce Sanderson Posted August 5, 2008 Posted August 5, 2008 Re: administrator password It's possible that someone renamed the user account called Administrator. See if there is a user account in the Users container with a description like "Built-in account for administering the computer/domain". If someone changed the name of the Administrator account, they may not have also changed the Description. By default there are very few user accounts in the Users container (e.g. Administrator, Guest, IUSR_..., IWAM_..., krbtgt, SUPPORT_...). By default, the Administrator user account is a member of Administrators, Domain Admins, Domain Users, Enterprise Admins, Group Policy Creators and Schema Admins. You may have to hunt a bit, but the Administrator user account can not be deleted, so it's there somewhere. The objectSID attribute of the Administrator user account (regardless of its name) will be S-1-5-domain-500. For "domain" substitute the part of the objectSID that is common to all user accounts in the domain. Since I had no success finding an application executable to convert names to SIDs or vice versa (my Internet search skills are somewhat lacking!), I've built a very primitive one (no error checking!) and posted it on my web site at http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/WindowsGeneralWeb/SIDToUser.htm. It runs under Windows XP, Vista and Server 2008 (haven't tried Server 2003 yet). The application was built using Visual Studio 2008 - it may require .Net Framework 3.0. Thanks to Brent Gardner who provided vital clues for how to do this on his blog http://blogs.orcsweb.com/brent/archive/2007/04/20/net-sid2user-and-user2sid.aspx. To find the name of the built-in adminstrator user account using this program: 1. launch the program (SIDConverter) 2. in the domain\user box key the domain\username of a user account you know in your domain (e.g. discovery\brucen) 3. click the Name to SID button 4. replace the rightmost part of the SID with 500 e.g. SID from step 3 = S-1-5-21-2444314999-935136740-3806003358-1107 replace the 1107 with 500 SID will now be S-1-5-21-2444314999-935136740-3806003358-500 5. click the SID to Name button The name of the built-in administrator account will show in the Domain\User box (e.g. DISCOVERY\Administrator). You should then be able to find this account in your Active Directory and change it's password. -- Bruce Sanderson http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question. "boba" <boba@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:E5ED4C25-5247-444D-91DE-B1795E2A1006@microsoft.com... >I am looking under users container but I don't see an administrator account > by itself. > I have done reset to users account but can't seem to see this account > anywhere in AD. > > "Meinolf Weber" wrote: > >> Hello boba, >> >> DHCP Administrator, DNS Admins are groups, NO user accounts. On groups >> you >> can not reset any password. The administrator account is located in the >> USERS >> container. >> >> Best regards >> >> Meinolf Weber >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and >> confers >> no rights. >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups >> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm >> >> > Under Active Directory users and computer accounts I see DHCP >> > Administrator, DNS Admins and when I do right click, like it works >> > for other users to get the option of re-setting the password, it does >> > not have that. I also checked under builtin accounts for administrator >> > but still when right click it does not have the option of resetting >> > the password. >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > "boba" wrote: >> > >> >> How can I change the password for aministrator in domain? >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> >>
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