Forgot Active Directory Restore Mode Password

Query King | Sun, 25 Jun 2017 at 21:29 hours | Replies : 2 | Points : 50

Hi Experts,

Please suggest how to reset/recover Active Directory Restore Mode password. My AD is running on Windows Server 2008 R2.

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Santosh Gupta
Novice (N+)

Hi Query King,

Go to Run, Type CMD and press Enter, In Command Prompt and Type

ntdsutil
set dsrm password

Now you have two options,

1. If you want to reset DSRM password for Remote Server (XADC01) then Type

reset password on server XADC01

2. If you want to reset DSRM password for Local Server (on which you logged in) then Type

reset password on server null

Type the New and Confirm new DSRM password and press Enter.

You will get message of password change "Password has been set successfully."

Now Type quit twice to get Exist from DSRM mode and ntdsutil mode.

Hope it helps you.

Sun, 25 Jun 2017 23:26 hrs | (Excellent)

Query King
Novice (N)

Hi Santosh,

Thanks for detailed steps. It worked.

Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:39 hrs |