DfE Laptops - Local Admin Passwords

[Tefters]

Can i just confirm the local admin account to correspond with the spreadsheet we downloaded from the DfE/Computacenter portal is just .\administrator (default local admin account) and not something stupid?

 

Just pulled 6 brand new DfE laptops out the box and the local admin creds are wrong for all 6 compared to the spreadsheet.

Yet to try the BIOS passwords as I was getting a lacky to look into them but if the BIOS password does work then I might be able to reset the password via bootable USB tool otherwise I got boxes of paperweights with no working passwords.

 

I know a few of the old crappy satelite netbook noname things passwords worked from the list but these are all brand new Dell netbooks i'm now trying to get out and reset.

[Steve21]

Err the original bunch we had were .\localadmin but think our last batch was just .\admin so guess might be worth trying all the combos

 

Steve

[Tefters]

Err the original bunch we had were .\localadmin but think our last batch was just .\admin so guess might be worth trying all the combos

 

Steve

 

Awwww man #facepalm

 

So much for consistency... I will give all the usuals the rounds then. Thanks.