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Article by: Zahir Hussain Shah

Today I ran into a situation where, I have to reset the DSRM Administrator account password, for checking our Active Directory database consistency using “Esentutl.exe”, and for this I had take my DC to the DSR mode, where I could run Esentutl.exe to evaluate the health of my AD database, and when I took my DC to DSRM mode, I came to remember that I don’t have DSRM Administrator account password, so then I searched that how can I reset the password of my DSRM Administrator account.

Below method you can use to reset your DSRM Administrator Account Password:

To Reset the DSRM Administrator Password

1. Click, Start, click Run, type ntdsutil, and then click OK.
2. At the Ntdsutil command prompt, type set dsrm password.
3. At the DSRM command prompt, type one of the following lines:
   • To reset the password on the server on which you are working, type reset password on server null. The null variable assumes that the DSRM password is being reset on the local computer. Type the new password when you are prompted. Note that no characters appear while you type the password.

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   • To reset the password for another server, type reset password on server servername, where servername is the DNS name for the server on which you are resetting the DSRM password. Type the new password when you are prompted. Note that no characters appear while you type the password.
4. At the DSRM command prompt, type q.
5. At the Ntdsutil command prompt, type q to exit.

   Cheers!

   Zahir Hussain Shah
   Infrastructure Practice Consultant – Unified Communications
   MCSE, MCTS, MCTIP Enterprise Administrator, CCNA, ITIL
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