If you lost the local admin password, then you can just logon to any other PC with a domain admin account, open a new MMC console, add the Local Users and Groups snap-in, connect to the server where the password is lost and reset the Administrator password. If you lost the Domain Administrator account password, that is a totally different scenario.MCDST, MCSAS, MCSES, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS, MCT

Dear Sir, we lost the windows server 2008 password, the Administrator Password. note that all the operator systems installed in Hyper-V Machine ! and the hyper-V machine also joined to the domain. Kindly Help

If you lost the local admin password, then you can just logon to any other PC with a domain admin account, open a new MMC console, add the Local Users and Groups snap-in, connect to the server where the password is lost and reset the Administrator password. If you lost the Domain Administrator account password, that is a totally different scenario.MCDST, MCSAS, MCSES, MCDBA, MCITP, MCTS, MCT

Hi georgeawwad, Do you have any other user who has administrator privileges? If so, you can use that user to reset the administrator’s password. If you have no other administrator account, there is no Microsoft recommended way to reset the administrative passwords. This is designed for improving security. Thanks for your understanding. For more information, please take a look at the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: Microsoft policy about lost or forgotten passwords http://support.microsoft.com/kb/189126/en-us Regards, BruceThis posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

this is hyper-v - your suggestion won't work, unless you know a trick others don'tD-B-S

this is hyper-v - your suggestion won't work, unless you know a trick others don'tD-B-S

I think the best way for you is to reset windows server 2008 password. The Spower Windows password Reset can solve all your problem within a few minutes. Importantly,No need to call a technician, no need to re-install anything, and you certainly don't need to reformat. http://www.windowspasswordsreset.com/ it also allows you to reset windows password with with USB Flash Drive or cd/dvd Disk now!!

Hi georgeawwad, Do you have any other user who has administrator privileges? If so, you can use that user to reset the administrators password. If you have no other administrator account, there is no Microsoft recommended way to reset the administrative passwords. This is designed for improving security. Thanks for your understanding. For more information, please take a look at the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: Microsoft policy about lost or forgotten passwords http://support.microsoft.com/kb/189126/en-us Regards, Bruce This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Option ways: 1. If have an account account with administrator privileges, use that account the reset the password for administrator. Use Active Directory Users and Computers management panel to reset domain user password: Step 1: Open Active Directory Users and Computers management: Start -> Administrative Tools -> Active Directory Users and ComputersStep 2: Expand Users folder: Expand Domain node (example: newhome.abc) -> Click Users folder.Step 3: Reset domain user password: Right click a user at right panel -> Select Set Password... -> Input new password. 2. Write a script to reset the password for administrator, see Hack Active Directory(domain) admin password with VB script. 3. Reset windows server 2008 administrator password with a third party password software, such as Windows Password Rescuer, Spower Password Tool etc.

Hi georgeawwad, Do you have any other user who has administrator privileges? If so, you can use that user to reset the administrators password. If you have no other administrator account, there is no Microsoft recommended way to reset the administrative passwords. This is designed for improving security. Thanks for your understanding. For more information, please take a look at the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: Microsoft policy about lost or forgotten passwords http://support.microsoft.com/kb/189126/en-us Regards, Bruce This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click "Mark as Answer" on the post that helps you, and to click "Unmark as Answer" if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Option ways: 1. If have an account account with administrator privileges, use that account the reset the password for administrator. Use Active Directory Users and Computers management panel to reset domain user password: Step 1: Open Active Directory Users and Computers management: Start -> Administrative Tools -> Active Directory Users and ComputersStep 2: Expand Users folder: Expand Domain node (example: newhome.abc) -> Click Users folder.Step 3: Reset domain user password: Right click a user at right panel -> Select Set Password... -> Input new password. 2. Write a script to reset the password for administrator, see Hack Active Directory(domain) admin password with VB script. 3. Reset windows server 2008 administrator password with a third party password software, such as Windows Password Rescuer, Spower Password Tool etc.

If you have a Installation disk, you can reset teh administrator password easily. Boot the server using the install DVD. Select the language settings of your choice and continue to the following screen by clicking Next Select Repair your computer On the Choose a recovery tool screen select the Command Prompt option.Next step is to rename the Utilman.exe file. This file provides the Easy Access functionality either using the icon on the left bottom of the screen or using the Win+U key combination. To rename the file, type in the following command: When the command prompt opens, Navigate to the system drive depending on the system and configuration, it could have the letter C: or D: assigned. Change to Windows folder and than to folder System32. <tt>> move Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.bak</tt> Followed by copying the Cmd.exe file in place of Utilman.exe: <tt>> copy Cmd.exe Utilman.exe</tt>These commands would normally bring up the Ease of use screen, but since we replaced its EXE with the command prompt exe, you will be presented with this command prompt. And the icing on the top of the cake is that this command prompt has full domain administrator permissions. At this point you can close out of the command prompt and restart the server. Wait until you will be prompted to log in. When the logon screen appears, you can either use the keyboard combination Windows+U or click the ease of use icon on the left bottom side of the logon screen. Make sure your operating system is listed, if not use the Load Driver button to provide drivers for storage controllers not recognized by the system. When the selected system is correct, click Next to continue. There are also some other way to reset Windows password with a bootable CD/DVD or USB flash drive. 1. Reset windows password with Ophcrack 2. Reset windows password with "Advanced WIndows password recovery tool" These tool is to reset the password offline. It is not so troublesome that you forgot server 2008 password, you can see this article about server 2003/2008/2000 password recovery. Two steps: 1. Create a password reset disk; 2. Reset Windows server 2008/2003/2000 local or domain password by one click! Instantly Recover Any Forgotten Windows Administrator Password.

If you have a Installation disk, you can reset teh administrator password easily. Boot the server using the install DVD. Select the language settings of your choice and continue to the following screen by clicking Next Select Repair your computer On the Choose a recovery tool screen select the Command Prompt option.Next step is to rename the Utilman.exe file. This file provides the Easy Access functionality either using the icon on the left bottom of the screen or using the Win+U key combination. To rename the file, type in the following command: When the command prompt opens, Navigate to the system drive depending on the system and configuration, it could have the letter C: or D: assigned. Change to Windows folder and than to folder System32. <tt>> move Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.bak</tt> Followed by copying the Cmd.exe file in place of Utilman.exe: <tt>> copy Cmd.exe Utilman.exe</tt>These commands would normally bring up the Ease of use screen, but since we replaced its EXE with the command prompt exe, you will be presented with this command prompt. And the icing on the top of the cake is that this command prompt has full domain administrator permissions. At this point you can close out of the command prompt and restart the server. Wait until you will be prompted to log in. When the logon screen appears, you can either use the keyboard combination Windows+U or click the ease of use icon on the left bottom side of the logon screen. Make sure your operating system is listed, if not use the Load Driver button to provide drivers for storage controllers not recognized by the system. When the selected system is correct, click Next to continue. There are also some other way to reset Windows password with a bootable CD/DVD or USB flash drive. 1. Reset windows password with Ophcrack 2. Reset windows password with "Advanced WIndows password recovery tool" These tool is to reset the password offline. It is not so troublesome that you forgot server 2008 password, you can see this article about server 2003/2008/2000 password recovery. Two steps: 1. Create a password reset disk; 2. Reset Windows server 2008/2003/2000 local or domain password by one click! Instantly Recover Any Forgotten Windows Administrator Password.