[1809, ou] Built-in Administrator account will not stay enabled

[MCReisinger]

Windows 10 - 1809

 

I have enabled the built-in Administrator account but as soon as I log off of any account I use to enable it the Administrator account reverts to being disabled and I cannot log into it. Interestingly I booted up in Safe Mode and enabled the Administrator account, rebooted and was able to then log into the Administrator account, while still logged in I checked the Administrator account in Manage and it was still disabled and I was therefore unable to log into it again. I need this account on my client machines in order to push down software to them.

[3s-gtech]

I’d guess you have a policy or script that’s disabling it. It should stay enabled by default, I’ve not seen that behaviour.

[MCReisinger]

I have had our NetAdmin check all of his policies and there are none that should be disabling the Administrator account. We have about 6 images and this is happening on only two of them. All images are built from a default gold image. Could be that something that was installed onto the gold image is causing this, but that is not an expected behavior...at least not one that I can make a lot of sense out of. It has been a very curious and frustrating issue indeed.

[jakalan7]

There will be some sort of policy which is doing this I'd expect.

Have you tried creating a local administrator account with another name besides Administrator? (e.g. localadmin)

Some Cyber Essential certifications require the local Administrator account to be called something different, so there could've been a policy implemented for this, it's a bit of a long shot, but worth checking.