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by kuryous1 1 view

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I simply would like confirmation. I began receiving Failure to Authenticate or unknown user or computer. This began immediately after renaming the Admin account in the GPO Default Domain Policy. It's a one domain network with 12 computers(Windows 2003 SBS). Or should I investigate a little closer? Thanks in advance. .

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by cg it

well with SBS 2003,if you want to rename the domain security admin account, you should do it via the domain security policy settings in administrative tools [found on the domain controller]and not via a GP. The GP will conflict with the domain controller security policy and local domain security policy. word of caution, you shouldn't modify the default domain group policy. There are tools to test group policies against se

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