I have one of our Network gurus' telling me that after they have renamed the
Administrator's name on some of our network systems, that the systems are
reverting back to the original name...Administrator

I have never seen or heard of this. Any Truth to this orideas?

Thanks
--
Jerry

Re: Administrator's Account Name Reverts to Original Name by Steven

Steven
Wed Sep 21 14:26:13 CDT 2005

There is a Group Policy security option to rename administrators account. If
it is defined and configured with "administrator" that could explain why the
names are changing back. You could see this option for instance in Local
Security policy via secpol.msc and go to local policies/security options -
rename administrator account. For a Windows 2000 computer look at the
effective setting in Local Security Policy which could be different from the
local setting. The support tool gpresult will tell what Group Policies are
being applied to a "computer" and Windows XP computers can also use the mmc
snapin for Resultant Set of Policy to see what settings are being applied
and from what Group Policies. Windows 2003 domain controllers can also can
do RSOP. --- Steve


"Jerry Hodson" <JerryHodson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E50BD036-9813-4468-8641-26C241D16242@microsoft.com...
>I have one of our Network gurus' telling me that after they have renamed
>the
> Administrator's name on some of our network systems, that the systems are
> reverting back to the original name...Administrator
>
> I have never seen or heard of this. Any Truth to this orideas?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Jerry



Re: Administrator's Account Name Reverts to Original Name by Ozone

Ozone
Thu Sep 22 14:21:08 CDT 2005

One thing you can do is run the MPS_DirSvc reports of the server in question,
and look in the GPRESULT.txt file and there you will find the RSOP for the
server.

DirSvc Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=cebf3c7c-7ca5-408f-88b7-f9c79b7306c0&DisplayLang=en#filelist

HTH
Ozone

"Steven L Umbach" wrote:

> There is a Group Policy security option to rename administrators account. If
> it is defined and configured with "administrator" that could explain why the
> names are changing back. You could see this option for instance in Local
> Security policy via secpol.msc and go to local policies/security options -
> rename administrator account. For a Windows 2000 computer look at the
> effective setting in Local Security Policy which could be different from the
> local setting. The support tool gpresult will tell what Group Policies are
> being applied to a "computer" and Windows XP computers can also use the mmc
> snapin for Resultant Set of Policy to see what settings are being applied
> and from what Group Policies. Windows 2003 domain controllers can also can
> do RSOP. --- Steve
>
>
> "Jerry Hodson" <JerryHodson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E50BD036-9813-4468-8641-26C241D16242@microsoft.com...
> >I have one of our Network gurus' telling me that after they have renamed
> >the
> > Administrator's name on some of our network systems, that the systems are
> > reverting back to the original name...Administrator
> >
> > I have never seen or heard of this. Any Truth to this orideas?
> >
> > Thanks
> > --
> > Jerry
>
>
>