Guest Jon CC Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Hi In need of urgent help. Have a friend running SBS 2008 whereby they recently changed support and in doing so the new Admin disabled two accounts (the main Admin account and the Backup Admin account) thinking they were unneccesary accounts only to then realise the two accounts were the only Administrator accounts. Apart from two Client profile accounts these were the only four accounts created out of the box when the SBS was installed. Subsequently no one can currently log onto the SBS Server as the only two accounts that had log on rights to the Server have been disabled. Is there anyway of re-enabling the Admin accounts to regain control of the SBS server. We can gain physical access to the server and can reboot if needed. Quote
Guest Mathieu CHATEAU Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Hello, At startup, boot in AD Service restore mode AD will be disabled, and so you will use the local admin account Else: http://www.petri.co.il/reset_domain_admin_...ver_2008_ad.htm please do not multipost in same newgroups or differents one. Crossposts instead Cordialement, Mathieu CHATEAU french blog: http://www.lotp.fr english blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com Jon CC a écrit :<span style="color:blue"> > Hi > In need of urgent help. > Have a friend running SBS 2008 whereby they recently changed support and in > doing so the new Admin disabled two accounts (the main Admin account and the > Backup Admin account) thinking they were unneccesary accounts only to then > realise the two accounts were the only Administrator accounts. > > Apart from two Client profile accounts these were the only four accounts > created out of the box when the SBS was installed. Subsequently no one can > currently log onto the SBS Server as the only two accounts that had log on > rights to the Server have been disabled. > > Is there anyway of re-enabling the Admin accounts to regain control of the > SBS server. We can gain physical access to the server and can reboot if > needed.</span> Quote
Guest Jon CC Posted April 30, 2009 Posted April 30, 2009 Ok I can get onto the server via the local admin account, but I still cannot work out how to re-enable the administrator accounts. Using other posts I have even managed to reset the password (i think) of one of the Domain Administrator accounts, however it still states that the account is dis-abled when i then to log back on with it. "Mathieu CHATEAU" wrote: <span style="color:blue"> > Hello, > > At startup, boot in AD Service restore mode > > AD will be disabled, and so you will use the local admin account > > Else: > http://www.petri.co.il/reset_domain_admin_...ver_2008_ad.htm > > > please do not multipost in same newgroups or differents one. > Crossposts instead > > Cordialement, > Mathieu CHATEAU > french blog: http://www.lotp.fr > english blog: http://lordoftheping.blogspot.com > > > Jon CC a écrit :<span style="color:green"> > > Hi > > In need of urgent help. > > Have a friend running SBS 2008 whereby they recently changed support and in > > doing so the new Admin disabled two accounts (the main Admin account and the > > Backup Admin account) thinking they were unneccesary accounts only to then > > realise the two accounts were the only Administrator accounts. > > > > Apart from two Client profile accounts these were the only four accounts > > created out of the box when the SBS was installed. Subsequently no one can > > currently log onto the SBS Server as the only two accounts that had log on > > rights to the Server have been disabled. > > > > Is there anyway of re-enabling the Admin accounts to regain control of the > > SBS server. We can gain physical access to the server and can reboot if > > needed.</span> > </span> Quote
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