Help! Rename Administrator Account

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Guest

Hi,

I have a single domain running server 2003, forest and domain levels are
2003. I have modified the default domain and the domain controller security
policies to rename the admin account to fbloggs.

At the same time I used active directory U & C and renamed the admin account
to fbloggs.

Shortly afterwards I started seeing 1202 extended errors and on searching
the KB it seemed that this error was occuring because I renamed the admin
account in AD U & C as well as using group policy.

I cleared the Domain and Domain Controller group policy rename box. I then
used AD U & C to set the properties on fbloggs back to Administrator. I set
all the attributes back to how they were originally.

Great, I can now login as Administrator. However when I view the
Administrator account I see FBloggs, when I view the cannonical name I still
see FBloggs.

Puzzled I re-instate the domain and domain controller security policy to
rename the admin account to fbloggs. This works and I can now log in as
fbloggs but the display name is still administrator - Why?

I also make use of SMS 2003 and my collections / advertisments are now
empty. I guess this is related to the renaming of the admin account.

Advice requested.

Andy.
 
Sergio Fonseca said:
Hi,



Have you followed this article?



HOW TO: Rename the Administrator and Guest Account in Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320053
Click to expand...

Talk about making something difficult. Sorry for asking such a dumbass
question. My problem was I thought AD was messed up because I appeared to be
stuck with fbloggs as my admin account name. However the policy worked and
it was me that had messed up, I had to right click rename the fbloggs
account to get it to show as admin.
 
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