That may make it impossible for you to delegate permissions or to install hotfixes or service packs in the future. One should take care that a GROUP has been delegated permissions in the Exchange environment, not a single user that could be deleted. ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gideon12 Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 10:26 PM To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Re: Password changes and Exchange 2003 You will not do any harm to Exchange if you change the password or even delete the account used to do the domainprep/forestprep. On 4/14/06, Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: http://www.msexchange.org -------------------------------------------------------Since Exchange 2003 runs under LocalSystem, from what I've been reading, there is really no particular domain account tied to Exchange to keep it running. So, if I want to change the password to the account I used to do domainprep/forestprep when I installed Exchange 2003 originally, I will not do any damange to Exchange itself? This account is a domain admin and thus a local admin on the Exchange box. It's the account I use to manage exchange with. I have 3 Exchange 2003 SP1 servers only. ------------------------------------------------------- List Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/exchangelist/ MSExchange Newsletter: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp MSExchange Articles and Tutorials: http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/ MSExchange Blogs: http://blogs.msexchange.org/ ------------------------------------------------------- Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe visit http://www.msexchange.org/pages/exchangelist.asp Report abuse to listadmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx