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I forgot one of my Windows server 2008 STD administrative password and cannot able to login to the server. Does anyone have any tools to recover the password. I did tried Active @Boot disk 5.1.3 , there are No luck with that. Please do let me know if anyone have any good tools to recover the password? Thank you in advance.
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I forgot one of my Windows server 2008 STD administrative password and cannot able to login to the server. Does anyone have any tools to recover the password. I did tried Active @Boot disk 5.1.3 , there are No luck with that. Please do let me know if anyone have any good tools to recover the password? Thank you in advance.
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This is the sort of trick I was referring to originally:
https://4sysops.com/archives/forgot-the-administrator-password-the-sticky-keys-trick/
You replace the Sticky Keys program with cmd.exe so that when you invoke Sticky Keys you run CMD instead. You have adequate credentials at the login screen to reset the password and that passes to the CMD prompt.
Don't forget to restore the original file!
https://4sysops.com/archives/forgot-the-administrator-password-the-sticky-keys-trick/
You replace the Sticky Keys program with cmd.exe so that when you invoke Sticky Keys you run CMD instead. You have adequate credentials at the login screen to reset the password and that passes to the CMD prompt.
Don't forget to restore the original file!
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I lost active directory password for windows 2008 server standard . I tried above option and couldn't work. Please keep me post if any other option.
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Which option did you try and what specifically happened?
If it was the StickyKeys one, were you able to get to a command prompt?
If it was the StickyKeys one, were you able to get to a command prompt?
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Upalakshita's approach should work also. It's the same sort of thing as the StickyKeys solution but you are invoking cmd.exe through the replacement of a different file and through a different process.
It would be useful to know what process you attempted, how far you got, and what didn't work. Depending on those answers you may run into the same problem with the last recommendation.
It would be useful to know what process you attempted, how far you got, and what didn't work. Depending on those answers you may run into the same problem with the last recommendation.
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Hi...I was tried all above methods to break a password and still No luck. active directory installed on this server , in Windows server 2008 OS that is the cause. I created test VM for using all above tools and works Windows 2008 R2 server. But not Windows server 2008 STD. please keep me post any other solutions if anyone had experienced in similar . Thank you.
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http://binarynature.blogspot.com/2013/01/reset-active-directory-administrator-password.html
Keep in mind that the first part of that is just to get the local admin password. If you know that, you can go right to the Directory Services Repair Mode part.