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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?UGF0cmljayBMdWJsaW4= on January 4, 2006, 4:28 pm
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I would like to rename the Administrator account in our Server 2003 AD
domain. However, all of the servers have been deployed and used for some time
without renaming the account. How do I accomplish this safely? What are the
risks?
Thanks!
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Posted by Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] on January 4, 2006, 4:31 pm
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> I would like to rename the Administrator account in our Server 2003 AD
> domain. However, all of the servers have been deployed and used for
> some time without renaming the account. How do I accomplish this
> safely? What are the risks?
>
> Thanks!
Make sure you aren't using the built-in admin credentials to run any
scheduled tasks, or services - it's bad practice anyway. If you are, I
suggest you change it - or remember where to change the credentials wherever
you've set them.
Outside of this, there isn't really much risk, as long as all the servers
are up & running and can see each other.
I usually like to copy the admin account as a backup, so I don't have only
one, before doing something like this - just in case - but it's not a big
deal to do, overall.
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Posted by . on January 4, 2006, 5:02 pm
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endeavor. No matter what the account is named, it's RID is always 500.
Ray
>I would like to rename the Administrator account in our Server 2003 AD
> domain. However, all of the servers have been deployed and used for some
> time
> without renaming the account. How do I accomplish this safely? What are
> the
> risks?
>
> Thanks!
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Posted by =?Utf-8?B?RGF2aWQgRGF2aXM=?= on January 4, 2006, 5:51 pm
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users and computers to rename the account. Be sure to either be logged on as
another administrator or immediately log off as soon as you rename the
account. Also, ensure that you are not logged on to other machines with the
account that you are renaming.
If you are referring to the local admin account, there is no such thing on a
domain controller. However on a member server you can use computer management
and local user and computers MMC to change the account. There should not be
any adverse problems changing domain or local account name, unless you have
services or scripts that use them. If so you will need to make the necessarry
changes.
--
David Davis [MCSE, CCNA, Security +]
"Patrick Lublin" wrote:
> I would like to rename the Administrator account in our Server 2003 AD
> domain. However, all of the servers have been deployed and used for some time
> without renaming the account. How do I accomplish this safely? What are the
> risks?
>
> Thanks!
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Posted by Roger Abell [MVP] on January 5, 2006, 8:16 am
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to rename the built-in administrator account
If this is used in a gpo that has the DCs within its scope then
this changes the name of that account in the domain.
If this is used in a gpo that has other (non dc) machines within
its scope it gets renamed on those machines
If use with both then on both, etc. so that if linked to the domain
the gpo changes the name everywhere.
Lanwench rightly has named the main pitfalls relative to where
the account may commonly be found in use.
>I would like to rename the Administrator account in our Server 2003 AD
> domain. However, all of the servers have been deployed and used for some
> time
> without renaming the account. How do I accomplish this safely? What are
> the
> risks?
>
> Thanks!
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