How to reset the lost or forgot password for the windows 2008 or SBS 2008 ?
These are the 2 OS which i tried to do and works fine without any third party tool. This is a backdoor access do not use this for hacking purpose.
Inorder to do this we need to have physical access to the server and Windows Server DVD
- Restart the Server and boot into Windows Server DVD.
- Once it loads choose your language options
- Click Repair Windows
- Click Command prompt
- Run the following commands
C:
cd windowssystem32
move Utilman.exe Utilman.bak
copy Cmd.exe Utilman.exe
- Start up your server as normal
- Press CTRL-ALT-DELETE and have the login screen
- Press Windows-U and the command prompt will come up
net user [username] [password]
- Where [username] is the username you want to reset the password
- & [password] is the new password.
- Close the command prompt and log in with the new password!
- Change back the move
C:
cd windowssystem32
del Utilman.exe
move Utilman.bak Utilman.exe
All Done ! Reboot the server and back to work
