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Every recipe consists of one or more examples that show how to accomplish a task. , that is being added, modified, queried, and so on. Instead of using fictitious names, in most cases, we use replaceable text. This text should be easily recognizable because it is in italics and surrounded by angle brackets (<>). 7. Reporting Security Issues to Microsoft Microsoft wants to hear about your security issues. Specifically, they want to know if you've identified new vulnerabilities or issues with Windows products.

They can do anything they want and you cannot stop them. So this account must be protected as much as possible. One layer of protection is to rename the account. This hinders attackers who are guessing username /password pairs, because the username they often try is Administrator . If that username doesn't exist, their attack cannot succeed. Although more sophisticated attacks will use the SID of the account instead of the account itself, this is still an effective countermeasure against many attacks, especially against less sophisticated attackers.

5. Type a new name for the account. 6. Right-click the new name and click Properties. 7. Click the Account tab. 8. Provide the new account name in the User logon name and User logon name (pre-Windows 2000) boxes. 9. Click OK. com. You can also use the built-in dsutil tool to rename an account, as shown in this example: > dsmove CN=Guest,CN=Users,DC=Contoso,DC=com -newname Fred 55 56 This example uses the same variable names as the renuser example. The tool requires you to provide CN= options to define the object name and location, and DC= options to define the domain name.