One of my employees rebooted our Windows 2008 Server and got the message that they needed to change the password. They changed it and wrote down the new one they entered but it doesn't work. Is there any way to find out what the new password is? There are no other accounts on the server so we cannot start the operating system!!!! HELP!!!!

Hi Richard Rackl,deleting SAM would be a risk and which i try to avoid it , because SAM contains all the user accounts and the password stored. SAM is closely associated with various other components such as SID and LPC. make sure you have given administrative rights to few users where in you can open ADUC console from the users session and then reset the administrator passowrd. sainath !analyze

Hi Richard, Based on my research, if you have no other administrator account, there is no Microsoft recommended way to reset the administrative passwords. This is designed for improving the OS 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

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