Renaming local admin via group policy (ISSUES)

[Tekmazter]

Hopefully this is an easy one for all of you.

I have already renamed the built-in domain administrator account manually (by right-clicking on the account and choosing rename), and have now decided to rename the local administrator account on all of my desktops throughout the domain. The problem is, when I try and deploy this via Group Policy (Rename Administrator Account) my domain administrator account also gets slightly modified. Basically the 'User Logon Name (Pre-Windows 2000)' field on the domain admin account properties gets changed to the same name as what I want for the local administrator accounts. Is this supposed to happen? As I said, it's just this one field on the Account tab that gets renamed. The rest of the domain admin account stays the same.

Thoughts?

 

[mrmoneymatters]

Create a seperate group policy for the one you are going to use to rename the local admin account. Apply it to the ou that has computers, not the domain controllers ou or the entire domain.

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[Tekmazter]

Thank you for the reply.

I have thought about doing that, but I guess my first question would be, is the change I have already made supposed to do what it did? I mean, it should rename the entire account if this is what it was supposed do I would imagine. And in past experiences this was never the case. This is not the first time I have done this so I suspect there are other issues at hand.

I am a new administrator for this company and pretty much the last guy here didn't exactly leave any record of settings he put in place that might explain why this would happen.

 

[mrmoneymatters]

It does't sound right to me, I don't think it should be changing the domain admin account.

Network Admin
A+, Network+, MCSA 2000, MCSE 2000

 

[Tekmazter]

That is exactly what i was thinking. I cannot seem to locate anything on the web about this so perhaps I've stumbled onto something undocumented here.

Anyone?