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LSA password for a Windows 2003 domain controller
Can the LSA password for a DC machine account expire? If I shutdown a DC for 3 months and booted it up, would it sync the password then or would it not be able to? If I restored it with backup from 3 months ago, it would be no good - correct?
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Yeah, the 30 days password for computer account is more like update than expiration. It doesn't expire.
Since you are dealing with a DC. Most likely you will have to reset the password with netdom as mentioned from above expert. If you have a good DC functional, and your other DC has been non functional for 3 months, and our are trying to restore from backup, why not just clean and remove everything regarding this DC from your AD: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736378.aspx
Since you are dealing with a DC. Most likely you will have to reset the password with netdom as mentioned from above expert. If you have a good DC functional, and your other DC has been non functional for 3 months, and our are trying to restore from backup, why not just clean and remove everything regarding this DC from your AD: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc736378.aspx
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Computer accounts do not expire.