Changing Administrator passwords in bulk on network

Hey everyone,
We currently run about 40-50 Microsoft Windows 2000 Servers (standard and
advanced) in our network, and we're looking for a tool to make password
changes on the local administrator accounts. I've seen some articles about
cusrmgr.exe, but it still seems a little tedious for what we want to do. What
do users in mid-to-large size companies do when resetting admin passwords?
Are there any particular tools (Microsoft or third party) that are used? I've
also heard MMS might be used, but have never tired this myself.
Thanks for any insight.

Cusrmgr should work fine with a batch file that you can use to give
different passwords to each computer for best security. You can then just
update the batch file with new passwords when you want to do it again. If
you want to give all the servers the same password that can easily be done
with free tools such as the one called PsPasswd from SysInternals that works
with a text file of computer names. I believe that the file needs to contain
the fully qualified domain name of the domain computers. You could also use
it with different files of computer names so as to not give all computers
the same password. --- Steve

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/fr...pspasswd.shtml -- PsPasswd
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;272530 --- cusrmgr
batch file.

"Doubleal" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hey everyone,
> We currently run about 40-50 Microsoft Windows 2000 Servers (standard and
> advanced) in our network, and we're looking for a tool to make password
> changes on the local administrator accounts. I've seen some articles about
> cusrmgr.exe, but it still seems a little tedious for what we want to do.
> What
> do users in mid-to-large size companies do when resetting admin passwords?
> Are there any particular tools (Microsoft or third party) that are used?
> I've
> also heard MMS might be used, but have never tired this myself.
> Thanks for any insight.