I went through something similar.
I asked if anyone knew the AD Restore password and got blank stares in return... Easily fixable, but annoying, nonetheless... Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv [email protected] Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com <http://www.fiserv.com/> From: Ben N [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 5:59 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Resetting Domain Administrator password - Server 2008 R2 I inherited this :) won't be like this going forward you can bet! On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: It may just be time to build and document it right as awful as that option seems to be. You gain the long term benefit o fknow exactly what the environment is now. On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Ben N <[email protected]> wrote: 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? I know, not a "quick" solution... J Don Guyer Windows Systems Engineer RIM Operations Engineering Distributed - A Team, Tier 2 Enterprise Technology Group Fiserv [email protected] Office: 1-800-523-7282 x 1673 <tel:1-800-523-7282%20x%201673> Fax: 610-233-0404 www.fiserv.com <http://www.fiserv.com/> From: Ben N [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 3:22 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Resetting Domain Administrator password - Server 2008 R2 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.+ -Ben On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: No one else was a DA ? ________________________________ From: Ben N <[email protected]> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]> Date: 06/16/2011 03:17 PM Subject: Resetting Domain Administrator password - Server 2008 R2 ________________________________ 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. 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? I'm following directions from here: http://www.petri.co.il/reset_domain_admin_password_in_windows_server_200 3_ad.htm 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. 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. 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