Changing Admin Password on Win NT, 2000, and XP workstations

[cheryl.kendrick]

We need to change our local administrator account on every
workstation we have, 700+. Is there an easy way to do this
on NT, 2000 and XP workstations. I wanted to create a
batch file and run it in the login script. However, I do
not know where it is in the registy for any of the above
mentioned OS. Does anyone have any suggestions for us? It
would be greatly appreciated.

Cheryl

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Take a look at PsPasswd from SysInternals and the many options it offers including a
wildcard [use with caution!] and the use of a file with computer names that need to
be fully domain names for at least W2K/XP Pro computers in my experience as in
computer1.mydomain.com. For a Windows 2000 domain you can use computer startup
scripts via Group Policy. That would not work on NT computers however. Cusrmgr from
the Resource Kit will also work. See the links below for more info. --- Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pspasswd.shtml
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;322241
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272530 -- Cusrmgr in a batch
file.