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Hello,<br />
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Yes this has since changed, the below link will help you...its not as easy as it once was, but the link does demonstrate the security issue from the previous method. <br />
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<a href="http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/05/19/how-to-automate-changing-the-local-administrator-password.aspx" rel="ugc">http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/05/19/how-to-automate-changing-the-local-administrator-password.aspx</a><br />
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Regards<br />
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Michael
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Hello,

Yes this has since changed, the below link will help you...its not as easy as it once was, but the link does demonstrate the security issue from the previous method.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/05/19/how-to-automate-changing-the-local-administrator-password.aspx [http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2014/05/19/how-to-automate-changing-the-local-administrator-password.aspx]

Regards

Michael

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A command line way is with pspasswd: <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897543.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897543.aspx</a><br />
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PsPasswd DOES NOT send passwords over the network in the clear.<br />
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In your case, maybe pass the server names in a text file to pspasswd like this:<br />
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<pre><code id="code-20-40521021-1">pspasswd @textfile.txt -u logonname -p logonpassword LocalAdminName NewLocalAdminPassword</code></pre>
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A command line way is with pspasswd: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897543.aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897543.aspx]

PsPasswd DOES NOT send passwords over the network in the clear.

In your case, maybe pass the server names in a text file to pspasswd like this:



pspasswd @textfile.txt -u logonname -p logonpassword LocalAdminName NewLocalAdminPassword

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Thanks Newvillage IT<br />
So when using the pspasswd do i have to export the servers computer name to a text file? and &nbsp;in what format is it listed in the text file to change each server
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Thanks Newvillage IT
So when using the pspasswd do i have to export the servers computer name to a text file? and  in what format is it listed in the text file to change each server

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Thank you very much NewVillage
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I am tasked to change all the local passwords of all member server for windows 2008R2 but when i tried to do this in gpo the password field is locked, is there another way i can change all member servers via gpo without having to touch every server<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Chappy
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I am tasked to change all the local passwords of all member server for windows 2008R2 but when i tried to do this in gpo the password field is locked, is there another way i can change all member servers via gpo without having to touch every server

Thanks

Chappy

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