Re: Admin Password

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From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_nospam-comcast.net)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:15:45 -0500

If you want to change them all to the same password you can use a startup script on
the W2K and XP Pro computers using a batch file containing " net user administrator
newpassword" . Of course that assumes that the built in administrator account is
still administrator and the computer needs to be restarted. Other tools that can help
are PsPasswd that can change the passwords on remote computers. You can even use a
wildcard and it will change the password on all active computers on the domain or use
a file with computer names [full domain name as in computer1.mydomain] to do it in a
batch.

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pspasswd.shtml

If you want to change to use different passwords, you can use the cusrmgr Resource
Kit tool and create a batch file as shown in the link below. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272530

"sam" <sam.security@link.net> wrote in message
news:OW4Pye0mEHA.3968@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I have 100 workstations so is there a way to change the admin password for
> each workstation without going on each one physically and change it. In
> another way can I do this using any type of remote. Some of the workstations
> has XP, NT and 2000.
>
> Thanks
>
>

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