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KON-BOOT should work: <a href="http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/" rel="ugc">http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/</a><br />
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Instead of changing the password, it bypasses authentication. This allows you to create another administrator user, login with it and then reset the other administrator's password.
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KON-BOOT should work: http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/ [http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/]

Instead of changing the password, it bypasses authentication. This allows you to create another administrator user, login with it and then reset the other administrator's password.

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That util (and a few others) will reset the admin password in 2003 server.<br />
It works - I've used it a few times.<br />
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Are you sure you are trying to log in as the local admin on that machine and not a domain ?
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That util (and a few others) will reset the admin password in 2003 server.
It works - I've used it a few times.

Are you sure you are trying to log in as the local admin on that machine and not a domain ?

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<a href="http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/" rel="ugc">http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/</a> will only work for a local account<br />
It's likely that you're trying to change an AD password<br />
You'll need SRVANY, INSTSRV and physical access to the server<br />
<a href="http://www.nobodix.org/seb/win2003_adminpass.html" rel="ugc">http://www.nobodix.org/seb/win2003_adminpass.html</a>
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http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ [http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/] will only work for a local account
It's likely that you're trying to change an AD password
You'll need SRVANY, INSTSRV and physical access to the server
http://www.nobodix.org/seb/win2003_adminpass.html [http://www.nobodix.org/seb/win2003_adminpass.html]

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Handed a 2003 server standard with no information other than the admin account is unknown. I've downloaded <a href="http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/" rel="ugc">http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/</a>&nbsp;which I've had great success with in the past however this time no luck. <br />
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Any other software known to unlock a server 2003 standard server?
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Handed a 2003 server standard with no information other than the admin account is unknown. I've downloaded http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/ which I've had great success with in the past however this time no luck. 

Any other software known to unlock a server 2003 standard server?

change administrator password server 2003 standard

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).

Windows Server 2003

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Security

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