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Setting up authentication for administrator accounts Resetting the administrator user name and password to admin

For more information, see the knowledge base article, How to setup a SEPM administrator account to use your Active Directory authentication. You must use a new Administrator account to use Active Directory authentication. Important Note: For the Symantec Endpoint Protection Enterprise Edition, do not use the admin account when setting up Active Directory Authentication. The default lockout period is 15 minutes. Note: If the account has been locked out due to repeated logon attempts, the resetpass.bat tool does not unlock the account. Double-click resetpass.bat. The password is reset to admin.Ĥ. Go to the \Program Files\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\Tools folder.ģ. On the computer that runs Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, start Windows Explorer.Ģ.

Note: If you change the admin account name to something other than admin and then run resetpass.bat, it changes the account name back to admin.ġ. You can use the resetpass.bat to reset the password for the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager admin account. The Symantec Tool is a batch file located in the following path “C:\Program Files (x86)\Symantec\Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager\Tools” in this guide i am going to walk you through resetting the admin password.įor versions below than Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 Release Update 1 Maintenance Patch 1 (RU1 MP1), you may like to use resetpass.bat utility. For one reason or another you might come into a situation were you are unable to login to the Symantec Endpoint Manager Console, Symantec provides a tool that helps to reset the admin password, this tool is placed by default in the SEP Manager installation folder which means you are required to have physical access to the OS on which the SEP Manager is installed.