Re: How to change administrator passwords?

On 7 Jul 2006 13:56:33 -0700, boomboom999@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Windows XP/2003, Active Directory, SMS 2003


How can I change regularly the local administrator's password on 4000
workstations?


GPO? SMS?


Option 1 - Use SMS or GPO for that purpose


In that case, I will need to place the password in SMS packages or in
GPO scripts which is not good because the SMS packages and GPO scripts
can be read by users and the password can be easily discovered.


Option 2 - Use some script that goes thru AD and changes the password
remotely on all PCs, one by one


That seems to be a good idea but not all workstations are static. There

are laptops. So, sometimes they are absent so they will miss the
password change quite often.


Any idea or advice?


See tip 7324 » How do I change the Administrator password on all my workstations, from my desktop, using freeware?
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com


Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com
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