Windows Server 2022 reset lost administrator password

Professor Robert McMillen shows you how to reset a lost local or Active Directory Domain administrator password using no third party utilities or additional costs.

[jonp]

Thank you very much! I did an in-place upgrade to 2022 (yeah..I know...not ideal) and it reset my Administrator password. Following your steps allowed me to change it back and get logged back in. Yay!

[moneyminute]

awesome. Always learning new things from you.

[adriankatong]

Thank you bro this is help me a lot... very useful tutorial thank you from deeply in my heart

[ValentinGheorghiu]

very informative video, thank you for sharing

[graz]

Hi, followed your advice mate ! thank you, however, the next day when i went to log in...it seems that the credentials weren't working...is there anything we need to do AFTER this process to enable us to get logged in again? like resetting the password again or the such?

[eemdvho]

what could the default admin password be when I installed the windows server 2022 in my virtual box vm? I downloaded as iso file and and it was a brand new vm, I’ve tried my 4 digit log in pin for that vm but it wasn’t it. Please help :(

[Tnskydivr-okzt]

I am SO glad this works. The only question i have is how do you reset the display boot menu to no? It looks like your on the D drive (your virtual drive?) Or can you reset that via the command line on the repaired server after resetting the password? And what is the default timeout does that need to be reset also?

[damienhenneken]

Hey, I am just a parttime PACS guy. In my CMD, net user administrator /active: yes as a successful command. I still cannot access win\sys32 to rename utilman.exe. My admin pswd is lost. I am hoping to avoid a factory reset, by gaining more commands in cmd server 22 windows as OS.

[giancarlosrm]

Hi Robert< thanks for the video, is really a good trick. In my case doesn't work because I need to reset the administrator password on the domain, but said the domain cant be contacted or reach. Any idea what should I try next?

[mr]

How can I setup server 2022 to ask for login credentials, at the moment when I login via teamviewer its opened

[MohdRizwan-dyus]

Is there any option to recover windows server 2022 admin password through microsoft 365 admin center

[robertgutierrez]

How can I revert back to ease of access on my login screen. Thanks

[xjcforeverx]

In my case Diskpart shows the OS Drive but shows it as having no letter assigned, any ideas for that?

[zazzn]

Wow total security hole, lol saved my butt though.

[TobiasHeyl]

Be quick! That trick (almost) doesn't work anymore in Windows Server 2022 (21H2 (Build 19044, 1288)).
That is because Windows will detect that the Utilman.exe has been renamed and therefore DELETE it.
Luckily it takes the Operating System a few seconds to notice, so in my case I still had enough time to run this command: net user Administrator "" (right before the command prompt window disappeared magically). I also tried to set it to read-only before with attrib but that didn't prevent the deletion of the file, so as introduced: type in the command as quickly as you can so you still have a chance to at least set the local password back to nothing and continue from there.