Testing - Can Administrator login as a user without the user's password?

I'm reconfiguring and setting back up a domain. I want to test
configuration changes across the board and want to confirm changes made
in System Policies, User Policies, and Active Directory. I want to know
if I can login as a particular user or several users (I am primary
Administrator) on clients without having their passwords and without
resetting their passwords also?

Roaming profiles, etc. seem to work okay on some users accounts but not
on others. I'm thinking I need to check Control Panel > System >
Advanced and see if the user is set to roam, etc. on each client PC.
Yes? No? I want to fix AND TEST after hours so when employees return
in the morning everything is smooth as silk.

Besides the Profile settings in Control Panel and possibly some folder
permission issues, is there anything else that would cause inconsistent
implementation of otherwise universal Policy and AD settings?

DC, DNS1, TS: Windows Server 2000 Small Business Server
DNS2, FS: Windows Server 2003
Clients: Windows XP Professional
*Servers & clients have recent service packs and patches.

Thanks much,
Fred

Paul
Fri Mar 14 05:58:32 PDT 2008

If you could log on as a user w/o their secret (password) what would the
need for a password ever be. My suggestion is copy a user and all their
settings and folder (Nothing that is private or confidential) data and test.
This is what I do when I have to make and test systems. I never gain users
passwords and when try to give them to me I tell them to NEVER give them to
anyone.

--
Paul Bergson
MVP - Directory Services
MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
2008, 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT4

http://www.pbbergs.com

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"F3" <f3_evans@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uYt9JBWhIHA.4320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I'm reconfiguring and setting back up a domain. I want to test
> configuration changes across the board and want to confirm changes made in
> System Policies, User Policies, and Active Directory. I want to know if I
> can login as a particular user or several users (I am primary
> Administrator) on clients without having their passwords and without
> resetting their passwords also?
>
> Roaming profiles, etc. seem to work okay on some users accounts but not on
> others. I'm thinking I need to check Control Panel > System > Advanced
> and see if the user is set to roam, etc. on each client PC. Yes? No? I
> want to fix AND TEST after hours so when employees return in the morning
> everything is smooth as silk.
>
> Besides the Profile settings in Control Panel and possibly some folder
> permission issues, is there anything else that would cause inconsistent
> implementation of otherwise universal Policy and AD settings?
>
> DC, DNS1, TS: Windows Server 2000 Small Business Server
> DNS2, FS: Windows Server 2003
> Clients: Windows XP Professional
> *Servers & clients have recent service packs and patches.
>
> Thanks much,
> Fred

Remco
Sat Mar 29 05:30:46 PDT 2008

not possible

"F3" <f3_evans@hotmail.com> schreef in bericht
news:uYt9JBWhIHA.4320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> I'm reconfiguring and setting back up a domain. I want to test
> configuration changes across the board and want to confirm changes made in
> System Policies, User Policies, and Active Directory. I want to know if I
> can login as a particular user or several users (I am primary
> Administrator) on clients without having their passwords and without
> resetting their passwords also?
>
> Roaming profiles, etc. seem to work okay on some users accounts but not on
> others. I'm thinking I need to check Control Panel > System > Advanced
> and see if the user is set to roam, etc. on each client PC. Yes? No? I
> want to fix AND TEST after hours so when employees return in the morning
> everything is smooth as silk.
>
> Besides the Profile settings in Control Panel and possibly some folder
> permission issues, is there anything else that would cause inconsistent
> implementation of otherwise universal Policy and AD settings?
>
> DC, DNS1, TS: Windows Server 2000 Small Business Server
> DNS2, FS: Windows Server 2003
> Clients: Windows XP Professional
> *Servers & clients have recent service packs and patches.
>
> Thanks much,
> Fred