AD Administrator Password

Hi all,

I have a friend that manages a Windows 2003 Server AD Network. He forgot the
Administrator password and also don't remembers stand-alone administrator
password as well.

How can he recover or reset Domain Admin password?

Thank's in advance.
Pedro L.

Malke
Tue Jul 11 12:44:49 CDT 2006

Lajus Norvejikus wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have a friend that manages a Windows 2003 Server AD Network. He forgot
> the Administrator password and also don't remembers stand-alone
> administrator password as well.
>

Read everything first, I take no responsibility for your friend completely
hosing his system. This is easily found by using Google intelligently.

http://www.nobodix.org/seb/win2003_adminpass.html

Also possibly of interest:

Unlocking WinNT/2k/2k3 domain controllers
http://www.jms1.net/nt-unlock.shtml

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Malke
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Frank
Wed Jul 12 16:06:34 CDT 2006

"Lajus Norvejikus" <LajusNorvejikus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:C0D35A7B-F7F4-431E-8949-CF73B1464F16@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a friend that manages a Windows 2003 Server AD Network. He forgot
> the
> Administrator password and also don't remembers stand-alone administrator
> password as well.
>
> How can he recover or reset Domain Admin password?
>
> Thank's in advance.
> Pedro L.

Often the default Administrator password is just a blank password box.

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Malke
Wed Jul 12 22:09:33 CDT 2006

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE wrote:

> "Lajus Norvejikus" <LajusNorvejikus@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:C0D35A7B-F7F4-431E-8949-CF73B1464F16@microsoft.com...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a friend that manages a Windows 2003 Server AD Network. He forgot
>> the
>> Administrator password and also don't remembers stand-alone administrator
>> password as well.
>>
>> How can he recover or reset Domain Admin password?
>>
>> Thank's in advance.
>> Pedro L.
>
> Often the default Administrator password is just a blank password box.
>

I doubt it Frank, not on a domain server. Lordy, I *hope* not.

Malke
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