Dear All,
I am doing a 'dummy run' restore to a new server (totally different hardware)
I've run through the recovery process and the OS has successfully recovered from recovery point stored on USB drive. It went through the windows setup process on first time boot and now presented me with a normal SBS login screen. I note that it tried to autologin so I assume it has not finished yet.
Problem is, it won't accept the administrator password or any other user/password combination: username or password incorrect.
The Administrator account is enabled and I use it all the time.
A couple of notes:
1. The network drivers did not install during recovery as it asked for them but previous dummy runs revealed it crashed if I pointed it to the network driver. It asked for the SATA raid driver and installed okay.
2. I've booted into the SBS install disc, got a command prompt and copied cmd.exe over utilman.exe so I can get a prompt by clicking the accessibility button on the login screen. - cheeky. So I have tried net user Adminsitrator NewPassword123 and also trying with the /DOMAIN option.
Even if I change it using net user, the login screen just refuses anything!
Can anyone help. It's sooo close :-)
And it would be fantastic if it will restore and I don't have to re-install everything
After all, it's what I bought SSR for...
Best regards,
Darren.