These instructions are for changing passwords for accounts residing directly on your computer, not for Active Directory passwords. This holds true even if your Active Directory account is an administrator on the computer. If you forget the administrator password for your computer, you'll need to contact a local computer repair shop, where they'll have the tools to administratively reset your administrator password.
This is document arni in the Knowledge Base. Last modified on Skip to: content search login. Knowledge Base Toggle local menu Menus About the team. Click on the User Accounts and Family Safety link. Click on the User Accounts link. In the Make changes to your user account area of the User Accounts window, click the Change your password link. In the first text box, enter your current password. In the next two text boxes, enter the password you would like to start using.
Entering the password twice helps to make sure that you typed your new password correctly. In the final text box, you're asked to Type a password hint. This step is optional but I highly recommend that you use it. If you try logging in to Windows 7 but enter the wrong password, this hint will display, hopefully jogging your memory. Click on the Change password button to confirm your changes.
You can now close the User Accounts window. Now that your Windows 7 password has been changed, you must use your new password to log on to Windows 7 from this point forward. Swipe in from the right edge of the screen, tap Settings , and then tap Change PC settings. If you're using a mouse, point to the lower-right corner of the screen, move the mouse pointer up, click Settings , and then click Change PC settings. Tap or click Accounts , and then tap or click Sign-in options.
Below link might help you. Changing the domain admin password is simple, login with any other domain admin membership account, connect to ADUC, right click the domain admin user and select the password reset. Changing the password is simple, just log on as the admin or using ADUC you can reset it. The bigger issue is finding out the impact on your enterprise if you change it.
So if you have a script that uses the admin account and you reset the password you will break the script or if a service is using it it will quit working. So diligence will be required from you before making this change to ensure that this account isn't currently in use. I believe there are scripts out there that will read through the domain looking for the admin account as well as you could read the event logs Via EventCombMT.
Please no e-mails, any questions should be posted in the NewsGroup. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You should be a member of domain administrators or bultin admins group if you want to change the pwd. You can find a similiar discussion here.. You need to check if any services are configured to run with domain administrator account,that may fail due to this pwd change,. First thing to do is determine what services are using the domain Administrator account, as these will need to be updated as well.
The Domain controllers do not have local accounts, so when you change the admin password on the DC it will apply to all other DC. No impact on exchange server, Just go through the System Event Logs for each server checking for failed services. Regards, Abhijit Waikar. As others said, you need to detect all the services that are using this domain admin account first.
For previous discussion, please refer to the following link:. Domain Administrator Password Change Question. Normally, a service's user account should not be a member of any administrators groups, that is local, domain, or enterprise.
If your service needs local administrative privileges, run under the LocalSystem account. For more information, please check the following link:.
0コメント