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posted by tao.yang
06-01-2009
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Configure Windows local Guest account
  1. $ColAccounts = Get-WmiObject Win32_UserAccount 
  2. $strNewGuestName = "<ENTER_NEW_GUEST_ACCOUNT_NAME_HERE>" 
  3. $strGuestPassword = ConvertTo-SecureString "<ENTER_PASSWORD_HERE>" -AsPlainText -force 
  4. $strGuestPw = [Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::PtrToStringAuto([Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal]::SecureStringToBSTR($strGuestPassword)) 
  5. $ColAccounts | foreach-object {  
  6. if (($_.SID.substring(0, 8) -match "S-1-5-21") -and ($_.SID.substring($_.SID.length-3, 3) -match "501")) 
  7. { #Set password 
  8.   $computer = [ADSI] "WinNT://$env:computername,computer" 
  9.   $objGuest = $computer.psbase.children.Find($_.name) 
  10.   $objGuest.SetPassword($strGuestPw) 
  11.   #$objGuest.psbase.CommitChanges() 
  12.   #Disable 
  13.   $_.disabled = $true 
  14.   $_.put() | Out-Null 
  15.   #Rename 
  16.   $_.Rename($strNewGuestName) | Out-Null 
  17. } 
  18. } 

In Windows 2003, the local guest account has blank password and by default it is named “Guest". Below is the script I wrote in Powershell to rename the guest account (no matter what the current name is) and reset th password

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