Wow, that outsource firm was being nasty... Is it a large well known firm or some small place? This kind of crap should probably be shouted from the rooftops because it is a real shitty way to do business. I would at least drop a line to the president or CEO of that outsourcing firm. I would also consider publicly documenting the issue so that other companies wouldn't be harmed by them. Of course, get permission from your management to do so but if they say no, tell them that had someone else done that, your company may not be in the bad spot it finds itself in now.
I never screw over old customers or employers because you never know when you might be working with them again plus it is just bad business and shows you to be very untrustworthy in a position of responsibility. The times I have been fired, it has been entirely the choice of the company and I happily walked out the door without doing anything, heck if I had been asked for an exit-interview I would have even of done that, I am not out to screw anyone over. This does indeed work, in one case, I was hired back several years later. Had I done anything bad to harm them I am quite sure that offer wouldn't have shown up.... joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Kern Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 3:00 PM To: activedirectory Subject: [ActiveDir] lots of issues This company is in a jam i've yet to have seen. They outsourced AD/Exchange and when they tried to get it back, the outsource firm demoted their DC's that are phyisically present at the company. some of these former DC's dhcp and dns. now no one knows the local admin password and connectivity between the root has been severed. no one wants to go the linux pw disk route because they can't reboot the server. there's no way i can get local system access to this server that i can think of. is there any other way to change or get the local admin password of what is now essentially a stand alone server? i know this is bodering on "hacking" so i understand if i get no response. just curious if there is a way to do this without a server reboot. thanks a lot. List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
