Re: Server 2003 PDC Admin Account

Parvardigar wrote:
> I have an idea what I could do but don't want to make a mistake.
>
> I ran the Microsoft 2003 server update, and the automatic installed
> NetFrame.
> Somehow the PDC became fickled.
> After the reboot I couldn’t log in using my usual admin account
> BADMIN.
> What I mean is that yes, I logged in, but the screen stayed white, and
> never loaded. I couldn’t do anything. No taskmanager, nothing. The
> system was unresponsive. I did this twice: force shutdown, and logged
> in as BADMIN. And the system was unresponsive.
> I used my coworkers admin account, and logged in. Thinking that the
> BADMIN account was the culprit ; with admin tools I changed BADMIN’s
> password.
> When I attempted to log in using BADMIN with the new password the
> password was not accepted.
> Later I tried to log in again and that failed.
> I logged in using my coworkers admin account.
> I elected after changing the password several times, and that failing
> to resolve the conflict, to simply delete the BADMIN account.
> Now I had no instances of BADMIN account.
> I then created a fresh BADMIN account.
> I was able to login. I had a new login screen.
> I looked in ‘documents and settings’ . To my surprise I had several
> references to BADMIN. There should only be one.
> I have BADMIN; BADMIN.SERVER, BADMIN.SERVER.000.
>
> The BADMIN is the one I deleted. However, in this folder is all the
> old emails. That is good.
> My thinking was to delete BADMIN.SERVER, BADMIN.SERVER.000.
> That would leave me with the original folder with all the relevant
> information including the emails.
> When I attempted a delete on BADMIN.SERVER, BADMIN.SERVER.000 a
> message indicated that I can’t do this as it was system material.
> Please advise what is the best method to remedy this situation. I
> could simply delete the BADMIN account entirely and create a new fresh
> admin account “ GOODADMIN” ; and copy into this new account all the
> files from BADMIN?
>
> I could do that, however, it would leave unresolved the issue
> surrounding BADMIN.
>
> Thanks John Marshall

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324734
How To Restore a User Profile in Windows Server 2003

John