HI All,
I just joined a new company and we have an issue where we have all kinds of Windows 2000 computers and we have no clue what the passwords are nor do we have administrative access to them. We are building a new domain and I need to move these computers over. Most of these machines are not local to me so I need a way to reset the Windows admin logins. I know this can be accomplished using boot cd's using various tools but I need to be able to do it remotely. I was thinking maybe somehow I could do this booting into a VM on the physical machine, but I guess I wouldn't have access to the physical drives.
Any suggestions would be great.
Thanks,
Greg
if you have domain admin rights you can change the passwords when logged on. do you have remote access to them either via a ILo or VNC
alternatively you could script the password change
see
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272530
for futher info
To boot into a VM and have access to the host resources, take a look at Ulli's site at http://www.sanbarrow.com
Ken I beleive that he is taking about physical servers at the moment.
Yep...Ulli allows you to boot a physical server off of a CD or USB stick into a virtual environment. From there, you can do just about anything you want...
Definetly we have no domain rights and I am talking about the local administrator passwords on physical desktop computers.
I was thinking maybe somehow I could do this booting into a VM on the physical machine, but I guess I wouldn't have access to the physical drives.
You can do that with moa: start a physical box and launch the existing system as a VM - but does that help you ?
Basic tools for setting of new passwords are included in ubcd4win - google knows.
Be careful - if the admin had used that password to encrypt drives or directories you shoot yourself in the foot.
Better is to use a tool that creates a new admin-account.
I have one of this tools in my BartPE but don't remember the name right now