Best practice - local administrator account

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From: SA (nospam_at_nospam.nospam)
Date: 04/19/04 

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 17:33:59 -0400

Hi all,
We are moving to AD this summer and I wanted to know if it is best practice
to disable the local administrator account.

Right now I am going to be renaming the account and assigning the account a
complex 14 - character password.

Thanks.

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