On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Christopher Bodnar
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> One of our VP's just ran across this article and is asking for my input:
>
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc512606.aspx
>
> Which seems to be recommending two things:
>
> Leave the built-in administrator password blank
> There is no need for account lockout to be enabled
>
> I disagree with both assumptions. I also find it odd that this is a MS
> recommendation. I'd like to hear others thoughts on these comments.
>
> Thanks,

psexec with any known local account that isn't Administrator puts paid
to that argument.

While I haven't tested it, something along the lines of:

          psexec \\computer /u:computer\localaccount runas cmd /u administrator

Should work...
Kurt

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