Taking over an SBS 2011 standard server / domain - can I change the administrator password?
I am taking over an SBS 2011 standard server and related network for 5 users. I disabled the previous tech's domain account. I saw there are some mail enabled contacts for the techs from that firm. For now, I edited the emails for them to point to me (I am thinking there are reports that may be going to those addresses?).
Can I change the domain administrator account password? OR I thought that the administrator account is used in some apps / stored elsewhere and changing the password will break things? Or am I mistaken?
How do I make sure all the reports (SBS, Dell OMSA, etc.) don't go to them anymore?
Thanks!
Can I change the domain administrator account password? OR I thought that the administrator account is used in some apps / stored elsewhere and changing the password will break things? Or am I mistaken?
How do I make sure all the reports (SBS, Dell OMSA, etc.) don't go to them anymore?
Thanks!
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how would you identify services thata break? The event log? print the list of services now, chang the password, reboot and then see what services aren't running vs. what were running earlier? But both won't catch services that don't run all the time.
Go through the list of services and set them to the new password (most services dont' use administrator account right? they use local system?
you say 'change it back to the old PW'. change the service? or the administrator account? and what if you don't know the administrator account now (part of why you want to change it, part so its different from old tech has).