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________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of John Bonner [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, October 17, 2015 12:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [adgpo] W2K12 Administrator Account Locked Out Hello, I am a software developer and not a very savvy sysadmin. This group has helped me out in the past and I need your help again. I have a development environment setup in my garage using vpc on server 2012. Everything has been fine for about 6 months and I was directly logged on about a month ago to setup a new website. However this morning when I try to login under the Domain\Administrator I am getting the message this account has been disabled. I am assuming at some point I must have fat fingered my Administrator account and locked it. I had two other accounts setup with domain privs but must not be quite right because when I try to logon using domain\user I get the sign in method you are trying to use is not allowed. I rebooted the server and hit F8. Chose recovery options then command prompt. It presents a single account to select Administrator. I do then enter the password that I think should be used..it works I get to command prompt. >From the command prompt I run net user and it shows administrator and guest as >the two accounts. I have tried various combinations like net user Administrator /reset and it says it succeeds but then after reboot still that same "account disabled" message. So I'm at a bit of a loss...how can I unlock the Administrator account....I have a laptop I could join it to the domain...log in as domain\user and perhaps it would give me ad&u access? But to join it to the domain it will challenge me for Admin user which is the locked Administrator...?? Have I shot myself in the foot and looking at a reinstall...that would be a major undertaking... TIA JB
