How to Reset Forgotten Windows Server 2008 R2 Password Easily

-- Windows Server Password Reset Series

 Like other Windows systems, there should be a lot of ways to reset Windows server 2008 R2 forgotten password. However, if one of them is both effective and safe, I believe we will choose it naturally. Now let me introduce the easy and effective way. Reset Windows server 2008 password with Windows Password Genius Advanced.

Preparation

• Windows Password Genius Advanced; 
• An available Windows computer, Mac, or a rooted Android phone; 
• Bootable USB or CD ROM.

1. Install Windows Password Genius Advanced on available device.

Follow installation wizard to install Windows Password Genius Advanced successfully on available device. Run it and Insert bootable USB into the accessible Windows computer, Mac, or Android phone. 

Step by step, it is not hard even for computer newer. 

2. Choose USB device and select the USB device as the password burning disk. Click "Begin burning" to create a password reset disk.

When the message "Burning successfully" pops up, password reset disk has been created.

Exit USB password reset disk and get ready to reset forgotten Windows server 2008 r2 password with it.

 

3. Plug USB disk into locked Windows server, set it to boot from USB device or removable devices.
Just choose BOOT option, move Removable Devices as the first boot choice. Press F10 to save these boot settings changes. 

4. Windows server boot from USB reset disk successfully in WinPE environment. 

After that, Windows Password Genius Advanced program runs automatically. If your server computer is installed with different kinds of Windows server systems, make sure you have chosen the Windows server 2008 R2. Select the account you forgot password, click "Reset Password" to reset the account password as "iSunshare@2012". 

Or you can add new user to your Windows server 2008 r2 computer. Just click "Add User" and write down user name, whose password is automatically set as "iSunshare@2012". 

5. Reboot Windows server 2008 R2 and login Windows with new password "iSunshare@2012".

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Reset Windows Server 2008 Forgotten Password with VB Script

  Series 4  - Windows Server Password Reset

The passage introduces how to reset Windows server 2008 forgotten password with VB script. In fact, besides administrator and Windows Password Genius Advanced or Raid, VB script can reset forgotten password for Windows server 2008, also applies to Windows server 2000/2003/2012.

What kind of Windows server password VB script can recover?

1. Forgotten local standard or admin account password

2. Domain administrator password on controller

What should you prepare?

1. WinPE live CD: the original file used to create WinPE boot disk

2. Another available computer: to be as boot disk creation utility

3. Bootable USB or CD/DVD device: as WinPE boot disk store utility

How to Do with Windows Server 2008 Password Forgotten Problem with VB Script?

 

Step 1. When you get a WinPE Live CD, insert bootable USB into available computer to create WinPE boot disk.

UltraISO is the software that can help you burn WinPE Live CD into USB. And then WinPE boot disk is created successfully. Exit WinPE USB boot disk from available computer.

Step 2. Insert WinPE boot disk into locked server and boot it from WinPE boot disk.

Step 3. After locked server boot from WinPE boot disk, write a VB script like the following. And the VB script file locates at the path: C:\\windows\\system32\\script.vbs

Set ObjUSer=

GetObject("WinNT://" & "." & "/Administrator, user")

objUser.SetPassword "HackPWD123"

objUser.SetInfo

Step 4. Edit windows server registry offline to make script launch when windows restarts up.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

  \Group Policy\State\Machine\Scripts\Startup]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

\Group Policy\State\Machine\Scripts\Startup\0\0]

"Script"="C:\\windows\\system32\\script.vbs"  // script file path

"Parameters"=""

"ExecTime"=hex(b):db,07,0c,00,03,00,0e,00,00,00,21,00,13,00,1f,00

"LastPolicyTime"=dword:00fd86f8

Step 5. Reboot server computer and script will run and reset a new password to administrator account.

Step 6. Login server and delete script and remove script boot key from registry.

Now, you have reset a new password for the account you have ever forgotten password. 

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