Disabled administrator account windows 2003

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No, create an account now. Disabled Administrator Account on Windows Server Thread starter calebr Start date Apr 8, Joined Jan 4, Messages So a staff member here at the office was throwing a fit because she couldn't print. It kept thinking she was an administrator, and the software we use to track billing and printing would hang up because of this. In an effort to fix the issue, I went into active directory on the server and disabled the administrator account. I was thinking it would then correctly identify her as the right user on the active directory.

Holy crap - what an idiot I am. So now no one can access the server, including the staff, since we all logged in as the administrator when we needed to login. I just thought that the administrator account couldn't be tied into the same directory as all the users on the network. I thought it would be way harder to disable access like that, so I tried it.

Big mistake, I know. So is there anything I can do to regain access to our server? I have been asked to disable the Admin account in the domain, I was able to identify all the scripts and services that are using the Admin account, now I am getting multiple error on the system and application log. Please help. The system detected a possible attempt to compromise security.

Please ensure that you can contact the server that authenticated you. Group Policy processing aborted. The failure code from authentication protocol Kerberos was "The referenced account is currently disabled and may not be logged on to. Based on the events, it seems that the disabled account are trying to apply group policy but fails since the account is currently disabled.

If you simply rename the account, they'll just look for it when they see that there's no account named Administrator. While it might not deter experienced, determined hackers, it will probably slow them down and might serve to completely deter a casual attack. Check out the Windows Server Archive , and catch up on the most recent tips from this newsletter. Stay on top of the latest WS2K3 tips and tricks with our free Windows Server newsletter, delivered each Wednesday.

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