changing the password for the admin account

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angryblack

Is there an easy way to change the password on the admin
account. We have about 120 servers that we would like to
put this change into effect for.
 
If you want to give them all the same password or same password to groups you could
do that by putting them on Organizational Unit or Units and creating a startup script
using the net command as in [ net user administrator newpassword ]. To protect that
script from prying eyes on the sysvol share, remove ntfs permissions for
users/everyone and give the domain computers group read access. The link below
explains startup scripts. Of course the computers would need to be restarted to get
the new password.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;322241

Otherwise consider pspasswd from SysInternals or using cusrmgr from the Resource Kit
which can be used in a batch file to change the password on multiple computers. ---
Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;272530
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/pspasswd.shtml --- can access a text file
with computernames which must be FQDN as in server1.mydomain.com.
 
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