Built-in domain admin account password will expire

[Guest]

Hello,

I have read repeatedly that this account will have a check in the box and
that the box will be greyed out so it cannot be changed. This was how it
was, but today when I went to sign in as this account, it indicated that the
password would expired in 10 days. This is definitely the built-in account.
I checked the account and all the boxes that should be greyed out were
greyed out, but there was no check in the box for "Password Never Expires"

Since this is greyed out by default, how can I get this back?

Thanks

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have read repeatedly that this account will have a check in the
box and that the box will be greyed out so it cannot be changed. This was
how it was, but today when I went to sign in as this
account, it indicated that the password would expired in 10 days. This is
definitely the built-in account. I checked the account and
all the boxes that should be greyed out were greyed out, but there
was no check in the box for "Password Never Expires"
Since this is greyed out by default, how can I get this back?

Where'd you read that the Domain Admin account would have 'never expires'
for the password checked by default?

 

[Guest]

Greetings,

I read is on Microsoft's site and several other newsgroup postings.
Strangely enough, the clone of production domain in the laboratory has the
check in the box. Since the setting is greyed out in either case, I believe
that no one can manually change it. So I'm wondering how it became changed
and if it is safe to alter the account (via adsiedit) to change the user
account control to the appropriate numeric code, to change it back.