Delete Administrator Account

[Aachen]

I have created and I'm using another adminstrator account in my Server and disabled default admin account

is possible delete Adminstrator account without problems ?

THX

OS: Windows Server 2003 SP2 R2 English

Edited January 8, 2008 by Aachen

[cluberti]

You can, but may I suggest something less dangerous: disabling and renaming the administrator account, then creating a new account called 'administrator' as a very limited guest user, and disabling that account as well. Once that's done, enable auditing for all account access on the 'administrator' account (the new one) - you'll find that a much more effective way of catching intruders and malicious users than deleting a built-in account.

[Aachen]

You can, but may I suggest something less dangerous: disabling and renaming the administrator account, then creating a new account called 'administrator' as a very limited guest user, and disabling that account as well. Once that's done, enable auditing for all account access on the 'administrator' account (the new one) - you'll find that a much more effective way of catching intruders and malicious users than deleting a built-in account.

ok i will do this

could you tell me the difference between "set new password" http://i17.tinypic.com/854pgdl.gif and ''reset password'' http://i12.tinypic.com/7yi2rv6.gif

[Idontwantspam]

Pretty much the same.

Use lusrmgr.msc not the control panel applet, is my recommendation. Rename the admin to something random, then give it a big password and disable it. Then create a member of the guest group called administrator, set a startup value in its registry to run "shutdown -l" and disable the account.

[Aachen]

Pretty much the same.

Use lusrmgr.msc not the control panel applet, is my recommendation. Rename the admin to something random, then give it a big password and disable it. Then create a member of the guest group called administrator, set a startup value in its registry to run "shutdown -l" and disable the account.

done...

1 - renamed Adminstrator to something random (af38h292nm2)

2 - logged in af38h292nm2

3 - changed the password

4 - back to default admin user

5 - af38h292nm2 blocked

6 - and created "adminstrator" as guest user

thanks

btw is the internet server of my office

Edited January 9, 2008 by Aachen

[cluberti]

done...

1 - renamed Adminstrator to something random (af38h292nm2)

2 - logged in af38h292nm2

3 - changed the password

4 - back to default admin user

5 - af38h292nm2 blocked

6 - and created "adminstrator" as guest user

thanks

btw is the internet server of my office

Definitely good to know when someone is trying to use the administrator account then