Renaming the local Administrator and the RC

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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
>
>

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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
> >
> >
>
>

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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
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win2000.security (More info?)

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