Hello,

I have a 4-site deployment of W2K Server with a single DC at 3 sites and
3 DC's at the hub site.
During the process of preparing for a backup solution upgrade, (performed a
Windows Update), one of the DC's was restarted.
The administrator account was unusable after restart. Meaning that I
couldn't log in due to a bad password error message. After retyping it in
and making sure of the obvious (caps lock, etc.) and even using the previous
old password. I had to log in under an alternate administrative account. I
areset the password in AD. I could then login again...until the next DC
restart and it didn't matter which DC was restarted either. The
administrator account password was then reset to some unknown value.
I tested AD (somewhat) by creating another admin account, waiting until the
AD changes were propagated during the normal update schedule and restarting
a DC. No problem with that account. So, do I have a corrupt account or is
there significant corruption within my AD database?

Has anyone seen this or know what to do?

Thannks
Greg

I've seen it before, but I have yet to find a solution.
My IIS/Exchange server losses the IWAM and IUSER Pwd on each reboot and they
have to be reset.
That machine had been killed/removed and then restored from backup. Ever
since I have had this problem.
If you do find a solution please post it back.
--
Yor Suiris
Remove the kNOT to reply.
But it is best to share it with the group.

"Greg Shepherd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have a 4-site deployment of W2K Server with a single DC at 3 sites
> and 3 DC's at the hub site.
> During the process of preparing for a backup solution upgrade, (performed
> a Windows Update), one of the DC's was restarted.
> The administrator account was unusable after restart. Meaning that I
> couldn't log in due to a bad password error message. After retyping it in
> and making sure of the obvious (caps lock, etc.) and even using the
> previous old password. I had to log in under an alternate administrative
> account. I areset the password in AD. I could then login again...until the
> next DC restart and it didn't matter which DC was restarted either. The
> administrator account password was then reset to some unknown value.
> I tested AD (somewhat) by creating another admin account, waiting until
> the AD changes were propagated during the normal update schedule and
> restarting a DC. No problem with that account. So, do I have a corrupt
> account or is there significant corruption within my AD database?
>
> Has anyone seen this or know what to do?
>
> Thannks
> Greg
>
>
>