Local Admin Password

[Jasper Recto]

Is there a way to change the local admin password on all our computers on
the network all at once?

Can it be done by some software or some policy?

Thanks,
Jasper

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Is there a way to change the local admin password on all our
computers on the network all at once?

Can it be done by some software or some policy?

Thanks,
Jasper

Do you run AD? If so, you could do this easily ... one simple way is via a
computer startup script (batch file) assigned via group policy to the OU in
which your workstations reside.

net user administrator <password>

This will be in clear text but the users will never see it, so for
workstations I just don't see that as a big deal. Plus you can get rid of it
when done.

 

[Richard Mueller [MVP]]

Is there a way to change the local admin password on all our computers on
the network all at once?

Can it be done by some software or some policy?

Thanks,
Jasper

I have an example VBScript program for this linked here:

http://www.rlmueller.net/Reset_Local_Admin_Passwords.htm

This reads "missed" computer names from a text file. If there is no list, it
creates a list of all computers in the domain. The script attempts to
contact each computer and change the local Administrator password to a
specified string. Any computers that could not contacted are written to the
"missed" text file, so you can run the program again, until the password is
changed on all computers. The advantage of this approach is that you know
which computers have had their passwords changed, and you know when the
process is complete.

 

[Guest]

If you seach the script newsgroup then you will see a script I wrote to do
just that

The script is in two parts

1) create a list of computers from AD
2) connect to those machines, change the admin password or log the machines
not on

 

[Meinolf Weber [MVP-DS]]

Hello Jasper,

If you have at least one Vista or 2008 machine and XP or higher client OS
you can use Group policy preferences to change it. Therefore Client side
extensions have to be installed on the machines. Also RSAT on Vista/2008.

Download and install RSAT on Vista/2008:

RSAT 32bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...97-23CE-4A36-B7FC-D52065DE9960&displaylang=en

RSAT 64bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...0B-63FD-4AC5-9243-BD3C497D2BC5&displaylang=en

Then open Control Panel, Programs and features, Turn windows features on
or off, check the tools you like under "Remote Server Administration Tools"



CSE XP 32bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...8f-d7dc-4b27-a261-247ce3f6c4f8&displaylang=en

CSE XP 64bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...ED-C1F1-4A0B-872E-EF0A32170625&displaylang=en

CSE 2003 32 bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...F9-5C34-44D0-8A94-44E47DB35ADD&displaylang=en

CSE 2003 64bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...03-7686-49F3-B42D-8E5ED23D5D79&displaylang=en

CSE Vista 32bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...87-884c-46d5-82cd-f3c299dac7cc&displaylang=en

CSE Vista 64bit:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...F4-8BEE-4ADC-8BBE-9949DF77A3CF&displaylang=en



Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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