You are a network administrator for your company. The network consists of a single Active Directory domain. The domain contains a Windows Server 2003 two-node server cluster. The security team states that the password for the cluster service account must be changed because one of the administrators has left the company.
You fill out the necessary change control paperwork. You need to provide the process for changing the password in the change control form. You need to change the password for the cluster service account by using the minimum amount of administrative effort.
What should you do?
A.
Run SC.exe with the change password option.
B.
Change the cluster service account password in Active Directory Users and Computers. Change the cluster service account password on one node, and restart the node. After the first node comes back online, change the cluster service account password on the second node, and restart the node.
C.
Change the cluster service account password in Active Directory Users and Computers. Change the cluster service account password on both nodes, and restart the first node. After the first node comes back online, restart the second node.
D.
Run Cluster.exe with the change password option.
E.
Run Dsmod.exe with the change password option.
Explanation:
Cluster.exe is the command-line utility you can use to create or administer a server cluster. It has all of the capabilities of the Cluster Administrator graphical utility and more. Cluster.exe has numerous options. The following are some of the tasks that are impossible to do with Cluster Administrator or are easier to perform with Cluster.ex* It is for this reason that A and B are incorrect.Reference:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305813
Martin Grasdal, Laura E. Hunter, Michael Cross, Laura Hunter, Debra Littlejohn Shinder, and Dr. Thomas W. Shinder, Planning and Maintaining a Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructur* Exam 70-293 Study Guide & DVD Training System, Syngress Publishing, Inc., Rockland, MA, pp.
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