So long as you have a good (that is, long) password on the domain admin
account, there's really no need to change the name. Account names aren't
designed to be secrets, so don't try to hide accounts by changing their
names.
Steve Riley
steve.riley[ at ]microsoft.com
http://blogs.technet.com/steriley
"Dan" <raiched[ at ]gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1184192119.416917.236270[ at ]o11g2000prd.googlegroups.com...
[Quoted Text] > Can I safely change the Domain Administrator account password and name
> and still have access to domain clients? I'm concerned that once I
> change the administrator account I won't have access to the clients
> and will have to bring them all back into the domain to get the GPO
> security back. Any cached policies would still be on the laptops
> untill they login into the domain correct? Do I even need to worry
> about this?
> I remmber the SBS 2000 domain controlers would lose there security
> ID's if you renamed the Domain Administrator account after Dcpromo.
> I'd like to secure the domain controllers as much as possible without
> bringing the domain down for an exteneded period of time.
>
> Thanks,
>
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