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by nutcracker 1 view

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I have inherited an Exchange Server 5.5 SP3 on NT4 SP6. Would there be any effect on Exchange if I change the Administrator password(the default admin)? Are there any functions in Exchange that would be affected?

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by vagab0nd

The only Exchamge service that by default run under Administrator account is MS Mailbox Manager and if you use it you'll have to reenter password in startup for this service. And there should be no other places where Admin pwd is entered for Exchange. But anyway check startup option for all Exchange services (go to Services, highlight needed service and press Startup button)

by vagab0nd

A comment to answer 2 - this guy is talking about changing Exchange Service Account password, so this is not the case as I understood from your question. As I see it you are talking about built-in NT Administrator - in this case Exchange services should not start as Administrator so there's no need to reenter password for all Exchange services.

by jb007

Stop the system attendant (stopping all other exchange services), enter all exchange server services and re-add the exchange account name and new password.

Restart exchange server services.

Apart from the above there should be no other problems.

There are some technet articles that you may want to read for some extra information.

XADM: How To Change the Service Account
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q152/8/08.asp

regards,

jb

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