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Renaming the local administrator account and profile Server 2008

We want to rename all our local administrator accounts on Server 2008 from Administrator to XXX-admin where XXX is a unique number. We also need to rename the C:\Users\Administrator folder to C:\Users\XXX-admin. Renaming the local Admin account was easy and so was renaming the C:\Users\Administrator to C:\Users\XXX-admin folder. However, when logging in now as XXX-admin, I am being set up with a TEMP profile. I went to the XXX-admin library and tried changing the Location of each folder to C:\Users\XXX-admin\Documents (and all other libraries), logging off and logging back on, but the same issue comes up.

Then I tried logging in as a different administrator level account, going to Comp Mgmt, and editing the XXX-admin account's profile by specifying C:\users\XXX-admin as the local path to the profile. Same issue.

Any ideas?

Mike

Why would you do all that when you could just create a new user account with the exact same permissions and then disable the administrator account?

You are getting setup with a temp profile because you can't just rename the account and folders and expect it to work. You would have to remove the entire profile, and recreate it.

sedberg1

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I have my reasons for doing this.

sfreemanoh

The easiest way would be to login with another account (that has local admin access), then rename the C:\Users\XXX-admin folder. Then log back in with the admin account, and it should automatically recreate the folder with the new name. Then just move any data from the backed up folder to the new one.

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This is the only thing that worked.