Blanket change of Admin password

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I am the administrator of an orginazation that uses about 125 computers in a 2000 native networking enviroment. I inherited this job and the administrative account. This organization uses the same admin password for both the network and all local accounts on each PC. Here's the kicker. I found out that someone else has this password besides me and my supervisor (don't you love stepping into the results of someone elses problems). Now, I've heard that there's a utility available to allow you to change the administrators password on all machines at once instead of having to do it localy one at a time. Can anyone tell me where this is at, or another solution besides visiting each machine?
 
Change it on the Domain server. I believe you log in
to the Domain ... not the local station. ?? I've played
with ADS for a while, and basically the Domain
server acts like a dinosaur and eats everything in that
Domain .. that is, changes passwords all over the
place. Not cute in my opinion. What I did here
was take down ADS and switch to stand alone
servers that did a simple job. Wow! ADS in a company.
I'm surprised you guys are still in business. I'll bet
I know what happened to the other sysad :-) Gave
admin rights to all the users, and they've got your
passwd. Solution: format C:\

johns
 
Cusrmgr.exe from the Resource Kit can do this from the commmand line.
Or you can use a script.

regards,

SteveC
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You can change the Local admin account on all
domain members through Group Policy.

Edit the default domain policy.

tm
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I am the administrator of an orginazation that uses
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about 125 computers in a 2000 native networking
enviroment. I inherited this job and the administrative
account. This organization uses the same admin password
for both the network and all local accounts on each PC.
Here's the kicker. I found out that someone else has
this password besides me and my supervisor (don't you
love stepping into the results of someone elses
problems). Now, I've heard that there's a utility
available to allow you to change the administrators
password on all machines at once instead of having to do
it localy one at a time. Can anyone tell me where this
is at, or another solution besides visiting each machine?
 
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