How to Change Multiple ‘Administrator’ Passwords ?
In a NetAdmin’s life, one of the recurring headache is to change the Local Administrator password on all the machines in the Domain; I had to do it and this is how I did,
Very Simple;
Go to http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsPasswd.html and get the pspasswd utility.
The above link won’t work since Microsoft acquired them, so the link would be http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/miscellaneous
Then just run it this way;
Make a text file, lets call it ‘file’ and put in your machine names one by one into it.
pspasswd @file Administrator <newpassword>
Run it with domain administrator privilege and you are done. Just create a batch file and keep it for future.
Batch File:
pspasswd @file Administrator %1
Save the above into ‘change.bat’ and invoke it as ‘change.bat <newpassword>’
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