How to limit admin account permissions.

I need an admin account whose password other admin accounts can't change.

The Microsoft way to make the administrator password inaccessible to other
administrators is to force the creation of another security scope: a new
box, a new domain, a new virtual machine.

What I need is a way to keep battling adminstrators of the same domain from
locking each other out.

Can this be done, with or without other tools?

The need is especially acute on laptops, whose owners should, kind of, have
admin permissions, anyway. Some people are nice and won't mess with you.
But you get wretched people too, people who should probably be driving cabs
but get hired anyway who will make me use ERD to recover the password.

Isn't anyway to get a programmer into Internet Services Manager without
making him an admin? This is just wrong. I need to withhold configuration
control from warring programmers.

Considering these problems, I'm amazed Microsoft ever sold copy 1 in an
enterprise environment. Nice desktop, but as an enterprise OS, the security
features are lacking.

Hello Robert,

See my reply in microsoft.public.windows.server.active_directory and please
do not multipost. Use crossposting with a newsreader like outlook express
or another freeware newsreader.

Best regards

Meinolf Weber
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> I need an admin account whose password other admin accounts can't
> change.
>
> The Microsoft way to make the administrator password inaccessible to
> other administrators is to force the creation of another security
> scope: a new box, a new domain, a new virtual machine.
>
> What I need is a way to keep battling adminstrators of the same domain
> from locking each other out.
>
> Can this be done, with or without other tools?
>
> The need is especially acute on laptops, whose owners should, kind of,
> have admin permissions, anyway. Some people are nice and won't mess
> with you. But you get wretched people too, people who should probably
> be driving cabs but get hired anyway who will make me use ERD to
> recover the password.
>
> Isn't anyway to get a programmer into Internet Services Manager
> without making him an admin? This is just wrong. I need to withhold
> configuration control from warring programmers.
>
> Considering these problems, I'm amazed Microsoft ever sold copy 1 in
> an enterprise environment. Nice desktop, but as an enterprise OS, the
> security features are lacking.
>