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mboppe,<br />
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Thank you so much for the quick answer! &nbsp;Disabling the account for a few days to see if there are any issue is an excellent idea. &nbsp;I never would have thought of that, brilliant idea.<br />
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Thank you again for your help.
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mboppe,

Thank you so much for the quick answer!  Disabling the account for a few days to see if there are any issue is an excellent idea.  I never would have thought of that, brilliant idea.

Thank you again for your help.

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Is it safe to reset the local Administrator's password on an Exchange 2003 server. &nbsp;The server is running Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2. &nbsp;I have never &quot;forced&quot; any services to run as a User like Administrator.<br />
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As stupid as this sounds, I misplaced the password ... literally torn apart my room looking for it! &nbsp;We are test recovering it and needed to run chkdsk to bring it up from an Acronis backup.<br />
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So just in case we need it in real life due to a crash, I would like to set it to something I know!<br />
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Thank you
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Is it safe to reset the local Administrator's password on an Exchange 2003 server.  The server is running Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2.  I have never "forced" any services to run as a User like Administrator.

As stupid as this sounds, I misplaced the password ... literally torn apart my room looking for it!  We are test recovering it and needed to run chkdsk to bring it up from an Acronis backup.

So just in case we need it in real life due to a crash, I would like to set it to something I know!

Thank you

Is it safe to reset the local Administrator Password on an Exchange 2003 server

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

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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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