Chaning Local admin Passwords :-/

[Smooth23]

Hi there,
I’m part of a network team supporting 500 windows xp workstations and have been assigned the task to change the local administrator passwords on all workstations on the network. I don't have much experience with scripting so my questions are:

1. Has anyone here ever carried out such tasks and how?

2. Has anyone come across Sysinternals Pstools pspasswd, it seems this is a popular tool for such tasks?

3. I have a licensed copy of Hyena, will this do the trick?

The password also can’t be in clear text.
I’m going to continue researching other ways of accomplishing this but any feedback will be appreciated – this forum has always delivered quality feedback so look forward to all replies.

Cheers guys

 

[IllogicallyLogical]

See the information provided at the bottom of the following link.

- Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change a user’s password using a script?

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/oct04/hey1015.mspx

Joey
CCNA, MCSA 2003, MCP, A+, Network+, Wireless#

 

[58sniper]

This has been discussed here many times. You'll find a wealth of knowledge via search.

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