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Server 2003 - Identify Services Dependant on Admin Account

JLL

Hello,

Does anyone know of an efficient way to identify services that are dependant of the Administrator account? I need to reset the Administrator password and would hate to check them one by one and/or fix them as they fail after the reset.

Thanks in advance.

JLL

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royal

Save the following to filename.vbs. Go to start > run > and do cscript filename.vbs.

strComputer = "."
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _
& "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")

Set colProcessList = objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process")

For Each objProcess in colProcessList
colProperties = objProcess.GetOwner(strNameOfUser,strUserDomain)
Wscript.Echo "Process " & objProcess.Name & " is owned by " _
& strUserDomain & "\" & strNameOfUser & "."
Next

Edit: Er nvm, that's owner of process, not service account dependencies.

royal

Here you go:
http://blogs.brnets.com/michael/archive/2006/03/23/2515.aspx

It's pretty nice, it will work on multiple computers as well. You create a .txt file and put a list of computers in there and the script will check all those computers and let you know if any non-system accounts are set to launch a service. This will allow you to go to those services, and change the passwords for those specific services.

JLL

Shouldn't the script identify services instead of processes? I would like an output file that would list the exact name of the service so I can go directly to the server and locate it.

royal

JLL wrote:

Shouldn't the script identify services instead of processes? I would like an output file that would list the exact name of the service so I can go directly to the server and locate it.

Read my entire first post where I correct myself saying I gave you an incorrect script. Then read my 2nd post where I give you the correct thing.

blargoe

You will also want to check scheduled tasks on each server as well...

JLL

Thanks guys! There were only a few that I had to fix.

JLL