Administrator Account

I made a new "administrator" account on the domain with full power pretty much; called 'admin'.

If I change the 'Administrator account name' in the security policy to 'admin'; will all the power originally granted to the Administrator account alone go to 'admin' instead; or will it completely sweep the 'admin' account and use 'administrator's settings?
My administrator account mucked up; and I prefer 'admin' anyway.

Help appreciated

 

You probably have services on any NT/2K/XP/2003 machines that need the original Administrator account in order to run.

Not a show stopper by any means but it may mean making some changes on however many affected systems you have.

If your new account is a domain admin, it can do anything you need to do on domain systems.

What's wrong with the Administrator account? And is it local or a domain admin account?

 

Its a domain admin account... 'administrator' on the domain anyway.
The problem I have is that when I try and login as "administrator" it says it tried to backup files to the registry and failed (or something similar... I'm on the server at the moment so I cant test) - and that it cannot load my roaming profile for that reason.
It doesn't elaborate at all.
If you can find a solution for the 'administrator' account then that is fine. .
Only the administrator account on the server is affected... ie I can logon as the domain admin on any workstation; but the server gives me that error; which is a problem.

 

I take it all back - All is well now.

Thanks anyway.

 

FYI ... when changing the policy of "Rename Administrator Account ", it won't effect any default applications that get installed by windows unless it is hardcoded. Example are services that run outside of the System account. All others resolve the SID of the administrator account and when you set the policy to change from Administrator to Admin, the SID stays the same. So all group memberships and policys in place for it stay the same.

Again, just have to worry about Services that startup with the account name.