No this is like a onsite user demo environment, but on a bigger scale. 2
Physical hosts and about a dozen VMs.. it is no way a copy of our production
AD.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Guyer, Don <[email protected]> wrote:

> If this is going to be a copy of your live AD environment, any way you can
> back the live up to a DVD (or other media) and restore it into this
> environment?****
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> *From:* Ben N [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:22 PM
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> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: Resetting Domain Administrator password - Server 2008 R2***
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> No one else that works here still was a DA. These servers have been off for
> almost a year. I don't want to have to rebuilt AD.+****
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> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:****
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> No one else was a DA ?****
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> From:        Ben N <[email protected]>
> To:        "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]
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> Date:        06/16/2011 03:17 PM
> Subject:        Resetting Domain Administrator password - Server 2008 R2 *
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> So i have an old set of servers as VMs. They had their own AD servers as
> well, but no one remembers the logon or work here anymore.
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> I am trying to go through and reset the the domain administrator account
> password. I have already blanked out the machine useraccount, so i can
> reboot, F8, pick directory restore, and logon that way.
>
> I'm using the srvany.exe method, using a complex password. It doesn't seem
> to work. Anyone have luck with this in the past?
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> I'm following directions from here:
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> http://www.petri.co.il/reset_domain_admin_password_in_windows_server_2003_ad.htm
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> But i thought it was odd he had D:\temp\cmd.exe instead of
> c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe...  So i using Robert STrom's script file
> instead and that looks good to me.
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> I've checked the registry setting for the service, looks good. Service
> looks good, although i had to manually check that interactive option on the
> Logon (2nd) tab.
> But every time i boot this server up.. wait a few minutes. my new password
> isn't taking. I wish i knew if there was some kind of error message or
> something so i can see if there is am mistake somewhere.
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> or i'm open to other ideas on how to do this same thing.
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