Thursday, November 29, 2012

Resetting a forgotten Administrator Password for windows server 2008 R2

  • Boot onto DVD of Windows Server 2008
  • Choose “Repair your computer”
  • Launch cmd
  • Go to D:\windows\system32 //why D? because the system disk is replaced to D :
  • Rename Utilman.exe to Utilman.exe.bak
  • Copy cmd.exe to Utilman.exe
  • Reboot on Windows
  • Do the keyboard shortcut Windows + U when on the logon screen
  • net user administrator Newpass123 inside the cmd
  • log on with the domain admin account and this new pass
  • change the password to remember it if needed
  • Reboot on the DVD to put back the original Utilman.exe
I will have to try this on a domain controller to check the repercussions!!!

P.S.
it works on a domain controller! time to think about windows security??

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