is there a way to change the local computer administrator ..

Hello,

GPO don't have this feature.Uou can use vbscript to achieve this.

Here is a vbscript from the famous Brian Desmond.
Fill a workstations.txt with workstations names and the newPass = ""
If you don't know how to fill the text file, please let me know.
If you administrator local name is not "Administrator", change it in the
script (line WinNT://" & line & "/Administrator, user")


'==========================================================================
' NAME: Change local administrator password on list of machines
' AUTHOR: Brian Desmond
' DATE : 6/19/2006
'==========================================================================
Option Explicit

' What to change the password to
Const newPass = ""

Const LogFile = "AdminReset.log"
Const inputFile = "workstations.txt"

Dim fso
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Dim shl
Set shl = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

Dim fil
Set fil = fso.OpenTextFile(inputFile)

WriteToLog "Beginning Pass of " & inputFile & " at " & Now()
WScript.Echo "Beginning Pass of " & inputFile & " at " & Now()
'On Error Resume Next

Dim usr
Dim line
Dim exec
Dim pingResults
While Not fil.AtEndOfStream
line = fil.ReadLine

Set exec = shl.Exec("ping -n 2 -w 1000 " & line)
pingResults = LCase(exec.StdOut.ReadAll)

If InStr(pingResults, "reply from") Then
WriteToLog line & " responded to ping"
WScript.Echo line & " responded to ping"

On Error Resume Next

Set usr = GetObject("WinNT://" & line & "/Administrator, user")
usr.SetPassword newPass
usr.SetInfo

If Err.Number <> 0 Then
WriteToLog "Error resetting password on " & line & ": " & Err.Description
WScript.Echo "Error resetting password on " & line & ": " &
Err.Description
Err.Clear
Else
WriteToLog "Password Reset on " & line
WScript.Echo "Password Reset on " & line
End If
Else
WriteToLog line & " did not respond to ping"
WScript.Echo line & " did not respond to ping"
End If
Wend

fil.Close

Sub WriteToLog(LogData)
On Error Resume Next

Dim fil
'8 = ForAppending
Set fil = fso.OpenTextFile(LogFile, 8, True)

fil.WriteLine(LogData)

fil.Close
Set fil = Nothing
End Sub

Set usr = Nothing
Set fil = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
Set shl = Nothing

--
Cordialement,
Mathieu CHATEAU
English blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com
French blog: http://www.lotp.fr


"El CiD" wrote in message

> is there a way to change the local computer administrator password via
> group policy?
>
> Please let me specify my question. I would like to know if theres a
> way to change the administrator password of all computers connected to
> my domain controller via the domain policy. I am not speaking of the
> domain admin password , but the default windows administrator password
> that each computer have prior joining to the domain.
>
>
> thanks guys.. I appreciate your input.
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: is there a way to change the local computer administrator .. 

In Jesper's and my book, Protect Your Windows Network, we included a tool
called Passgen that will help you do this. We've put the tools on our
website, you can download them free.

http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com/tools.htm

--
Steve Riley
steve.riley.TakeThisOut@microsoft.com
http://blogs.technet.com/steriley
http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com


"El CiD" wrote in message

> is there a way to change the local computer administrator password via
> group policy?
>
> Please let me specify my question. I would like to know if theres a
> way to change the administrator password of all computers connected to
> my domain controller via the domain policy. I am not speaking of the
> domain admin password , but the default windows administrator password
> that each computer have prior joining to the domain.
>
>
> thanks guys.. I appreciate your input.
>
>
 >> Stay informed about: is there a way to change the local computer administrator .. 

On Oct 18, 2:26 am, "Steve Riley [MSFT]"
wrote:
> In Jesper's and my book, Protect Your Windows Network, we included a tool
> called Passgen that will help you do this. We've put the tools on our
> website, you can download them free.
>
> http://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com/tools.htm
>
> --
> Steve Riley
> steve.ri....RemoveThis@microsoft.comhttp://blogs.technet.com/sterileyhttp://www.protectyourwindowsnetwork.com
>
> "El CiD" wrote in message
>
>
>
> > is there a way to change the local computer administrator password via
> > group policy?
>
> > Please let me specify my question. I would like to know if theres a
> > way to change the administrator password of all computers connected to
> > my domain controller via the domain policy. I am not speaking of the
> > domain admin password , but the default windows administrator password
> > that each computer have prior joining to the domain.
>
> > thanks guys.. I appreciate your input.

sites' not working btw
 >> Stay informed about: is there a way to change the local computer administrator .. 

THANK YOU!




On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:16:00 -0700, Daniel Sutton
wrote:

>It is not possible to do from group policy, the only things you can really do
>in group policy is change the user name for the administrator account and
>disable the account altogethor.
>A script or a program called Cusrmgr are the only really ways to do this.
>Take a look at
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272530
>
>The scripting guy also wrote a piece on scripting the process
>
>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/qanda/jul07/hey0703.mspx
 >> Stay informed about: is there a way to change the local computer administrator ..