I have an issue where a mischievous employee figured out the administrator password of the local workstations. He is pretty much computer illiterate and I am more annoyed and feel security has been undermined than anything else.
This situation has brought up a rather important issue. How to change the administrator passwords on local workstations in a 2003 domain without going to each workstation individually. I heard of 3rd party tools doing this, but I'm not too keen on the idea of installing software that is not really needed.
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Change Local Administrator Password on Multiple Machines in a 2003 Domain
9th Apr 2008
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Use net user command
To change the user password using command line option, you can use "net user" command. Please have a look at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=149427.
If you combine this with the at command you can run the command on different machines, e.g. at \\ cmd /c net user Administrator anythingyouwant
e.g. at \\savilljohn 18:00 cmd /c net user Administrator password
The /c after cmd causes the command window to close after the command has been executed. An alternative to the at command would be the soon command:
soon \\ cmd /c net user Administrator password
For this to work you will need to ensure the Scheduler (Task Scheduler) service is running on the destination machines.
If you combine this with the at command you can run the command on different machines, e.g. at \\ cmd /c net user Administrator anythingyouwant
e.g. at \\savilljohn 18:00 cmd /c net user Administrator password
The /c after cmd causes the command window to close after the command has been executed. An alternative to the at command would be the soon command:
soon \\ cmd /c net user Administrator password
For this to work you will need to ensure the Scheduler (Task Scheduler) service is running on the destination machines.
9th Apr 2008
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Connect to
In Xp when you go to Computer-Manage you can go to tools i believe and then connect to, enter the computer and you are in their users, and can change the local admin pwd.
9th Apr 2008
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thanks
thank you for your help. much appreciated
9th Apr 2008
