Changing Administrator password 2

[jakess]

Is there any free utilities that can change Administrators password in one go on different servers.

 

[porkchopexpress]

Try PsPasswd

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/pspasswd.mspx

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[matahari]

Jakess, have you tried the utility yet? Did it work for you? Please let me know cos I am also looking into using an administrator password utility that would run automatically on all our servers.

 

[58sniper]

You can do it via vbs with something like this:

Set objWshNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
strComputer = objWshNetwork.ComputerName
Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Administrator, user")

objUser.SetPassword "blahblah"
objUser.SetInfo

Tie it to a GPO that covers the OUs containing the servers. You can set appropriate rights on the file so that users can't read it.

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[porkchopexpress]

matahari i use that util all the time and it works flawlessly. I'm sure Pats VB script will work fine as well so take your pic.





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[58sniper]

Yep - either way should work. It all depends on the scope. If you need to manually do it on just a single remote box, pspasswd would work. With a little editing, so would the vbs file.

If you need to do it on a bunch of remote machines, and want to make sure that they are always what you're setting them to, a GPO would likely be the better solution. Again, either method could be used in a GPO.

Options, lots of options.

A star for porkchopexpress for that answer.

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Microsoft Exchange MVP
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[porkchopexpress]

Thanks Pat. One for your nifty script as well.





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[jakess]

I actually forgot about PStools. Yes it will work.