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How to synchronise the DSRM password with your SBS 2008 Network administrators password

November 24, 2011 by Wayne Small 2 Comments

One of the things you should do before migration is to ensure that you set your DSRM password to something that you know.  The quickest way to do this is to use NTDSUtil to synchronise it with the current SBS 2008 or SBS 2011 Network Administrators password.

To do this is easy – use the following procedure.

  1. Open up a CMD prompt window
  2. Run NTDSUTIL.EXE
  3. Type SET DSRM PASSWORD and hit enter
  4. Type SYNC FROM DOMAIN ACCOUNT ADMINISTRATOR_ACCOUNT_NAME and hit Enter (where ADMINISTRATOR_ACCOUNT_NAME is your network admin account)
  5. This will set the password to your current network administrators account password.
  6. Hit Q twice to exit the NTDSUTIL tool

You can see below where I’ve configured my SBS 2008 server to sync with the account SBSADMIN

 

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Of course, the next thing before you need to use it in a DR scenario is to test it of course!

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Filed Under: FAQs Tagged With: Disaster Recovery, SBS 2008, SBS 2011, SBS 2011 Essentials, SBS 2011 Standard, Security

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Comments

  1. Justin says

    November 25, 2011 at 7:46 am

    Hey Wayne,

    You can also be fancy/lazy and string the whole command together into a single command!

    ntdsutil “set dsrm password” “sync from domain account sbsadmin” q q

    Cheers

    Reply
    • Wayne Small says

      November 25, 2011 at 8:36 am

      Yup – I know – thats the subject of tonights blog post. Further refinements to automatically sync it.

      Reply

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