Adminpak CD- is this a joke ??

[Mulan]

Unless I'm missing something here, this CD is completely useless.

Where are the vaunted utilities that make this a $700 (?) product? All I can
see is the useless ERD commander which can't even help me reset the lost
local admnin password!

Has anyone else had a similar experience with the Adminpak software? Is
there something I can do ? (as this is not the newest version.) Does
Microsoft even support it, now that they've bought it?

Thanks.

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

IMO, the Insight For AD alone is worth the price of admission. But
opinions vary.

I don't know anyone who would buy the package just to reset a local
admin password considering that capability is freely available from
multiple sources and has been since NT4 days.

joe

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[Mulan]

Could you please elaborate on the freely available software?

Thanks.

 

[VideoReDo Sucks]

Sure, here 'ya go:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

That is one of them.

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available---

http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm