Changing Local Admin Account Name Remotely

[peaceinusa]

Greetings,

I am trying to figure out a way to remotely change the local Administrator account name on all the 1300+ workstations in our network. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thank You

 

[bcastner]

Just the name?

The resource kits for Win2k and Windows 2003 include cusrmngr.exe that will let you do this.

And example use, with a script, see the nearly last post here: thread96-669062

Or just add an additional local administrator:

Example from the MS Scripting Guide:

Note #1: use "." for the individual computer
Note #2: Replace 'Kenmyer' with your text

strComputer = "MyComputer"
Set objGroup = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Administrators,group")
Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/kenmyer,user")
objGroup.Add(objUser.ADsPath)

See:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/scriptcenter/default.mspx