Renaming the local Administrator and the RC

[Guest]

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Hi all,

Our domain policy has been setup to rename the administrator accounts on
client machines when they hookup to the domain. If you rename the local
administrator account, does this stop you from using the recovery console or
not?

Cheers,

Tristan

 

[Guest]

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No, this does not prevent the account from being used,
but of course one must know the name and password.

--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
"Tristan Leask" <no@no.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> Our domain policy has been setup to rename the administrator accounts on
> client machines when they hookup to the domain. If you rename the local
> administrator account, does this stop you from using the recovery console
or
> not?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tristan
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Thanks god for that. With the Recovery Console, is there a way to use a UK
keyboard layout as the pasword contains GBP sign. They didn't think of
adding international support until XP!!!


Tristan


"Roger Abell" <mvpNOSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
news:#zL4AX62EHA.1400@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> No, this does not prevent the account from being used,
> but of course one must know the name and password.
>
> --
> Roger Abell
> Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
> MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
> "Tristan Leask" <no@no.com> wrote in message
> news:e3eJ$L62EHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Our domain policy has been setup to rename the administrator accounts on
> > client machines when they hookup to the domain. If you rename the local
> > administrator account, does this stop you from using the recovery
console
> or
> > not?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Tristan
> >
> >
>
>

 

[Guest]

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"Tristan Leask" <no@no.com> wrote in message
news:evkLkf62EHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Thanks god for that. With the Recovery Console, is there a way to use a
UK
> keyboard layout as the pasword contains GBP sign. They didn't think of
> adding international support until XP!!!
>
>
> Tristan
>

No idea Tristan.
You perhaps should just test, and if needed post
a new thread with issue clearly in its subject as
we do have a number of MVPs from UK in here.

--
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA

>
> "Roger Abell" <mvpNOSpam@asu.edu> wrote in message
> news:#zL4AX62EHA.1400@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > No, this does not prevent the account from being used,
> > but of course one must know the name and password.
> >
> > --
> > Roger Abell
> > Microsoft MVP (Windows Security)
> > MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4) MCDBA
> > "Tristan Leask" <no@no.com> wrote in message
> > news:e3eJ$L62EHA.524@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Our domain policy has been setup to rename the administrator accounts
on
> > > client machines when they hookup to the domain. If you rename the
local
> > > administrator account, does this stop you from using the recovery
> console
> > or
> > > not?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Tristan
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Roger Abell wrote:

> "Tristan Leask" <no@no.com> wrote in message
> news:evkLkf62EHA.4072@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
>>Thanks god for that. With the Recovery Console, is there a way to use a
>
> UK
>
>>keyboard layout as the pasword contains GBP sign. They didn't think of
>>adding international support until XP!!!
>>
>>
>>Tristan
>>

An alternative thought on this. Could you use the keyboard value for GBP
sign instead, i.e. key in password using Alt + nnn where nnn is the key value?

AlanD