Renamed administrator's password

[Bill]

Help! I renamed the administrator's password in my ad
domain and now I can't get into the active directory mmc
snapins. I get a login failed error. Where do I need to go
to change the password AD uses to login?

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Bill,

You changed the password to the Administrator's account? or did you rename
that Administrator's account from 'Administrator' to 'whatever'?

Cary

 

[Guest]

I set a new group policy to rename the administrator
account but it diidn't seem to work. I also changed the
administrator password.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Bill,

Sorry for the delayed response.

There is indeed a Group Policy that allows you to rename the Administrator
account ( and, since I am here, the guest account ). IIRC, all it does is
change the name that you and I see - it does not change the SID.

Have you tried changing it back to 'Administrator'. Try that.

HTH,

Cary