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Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Server, DSRM password known 500 account can't be logged into

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08/07/2008 8:47 AM
I am not sure if it still works on newer OS', but in the old NT4 days, you could boot from an a cd (pick your favorite utility) and delete local SAM in system32/config (and it's back up copy in %systemroot%\repair) and then boot back into OS. Which will present you with the default Admin account with no password. Needless to mention you loose all existing non-default local accounts, groups and their membership. So it is a last resort solution. Thank you, Tony. Tony Gordon Windows 2003 & 2000 MCSE, Windows 2003 MCSA, PMP ITS Infrastructure Engineering Hewitt Associates \| 100 Half Day Road \| Lincolnshire, IL 60069 \| USA Tel 847.295.5000 x50526 \| Fax 847.554.1574 tony dot gordon at hewitt dot com \| www.hewitt.com From: "Michael B. Smith" <michael@TheEssentialExchange.com> To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Date: 08/06/2008 08:16 PM Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Server, DSRM password known 500 account can't be logged into I would use the pnordahl solution. It's always worked for me. http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd/ Does require onsite (unless you have ILO/DRAC) Regards, Michael B. Smith MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com -----Original Message----- From: ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org [mailto:ActiveDir-owner@mail.activedir.org] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 8:43 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Server, DSRM password known 500 account can't be logged into DC, can't log into the 500 account and there are no other administrator accounts. (yeah it's a SBS box, what else, with a consultant coming in behind another consultant). They have used various password (Petri, Sysinternals) sites to reveal the recovery mode password, but neither this is working nor the ability to log into DSRM to log to change the main password. Server is functioning fine otherwise for all other users. Everyone else can browse and log in as users. Is there ever a time that a profile or something in AD is so horked that it won't allow the 500 account to be logged into either locally or remotely? List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ma/default.aspx The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.

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