AD locked out administrator

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Help!! Please!!

I was working in AD setting uo polocies for Ous, I some
how must of set one dor the entire Domain, becasue when I
try to access the AD, it say it is restricted by a policy.
I am using the built in administrator account. It there a
way to delete this policy or get to thru the registry or
any other way so I can get back in. It looks like at this
point my server is pernately locked down, I am also
running SBS 2000 with only one Domain controller. If you
have any advise, please help so I wont get fired on
Monday!!!!!!!!
 
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Help!! Please!! said:
I was working in AD setting uo polocies for Ous, I some
how must of set one dor the entire Domain, becasue when I
try to access the AD, it say it is restricted by a policy.
I am using the built in administrator account. It there a
way to delete this policy or get to thru the registry or
any other way so I can get back in. It looks like at this
point my server is pernately locked down, I am also
running SBS 2000 with only one Domain controller. If you
have any advise, please help so I wont get fired on
Monday!!!!!!!!
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If you can still logon to the machine, (if not, try from another machine)
and use the Security Config and Analysis snapin and put the default policy
back on the domain's Default Domain OU. You can also try the GPMC tool.

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
 
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