Installing Windows Storage Server 2008
The Administrator password when installing Windows Storage Server 2008 is wSS2008!.
No, I don't blab confidential Microsoft information. No, I don't give away keys. And no, I don't give away any real passwords. However, this is the default install password, and it's not a secret or confidential, it's just too hard to find. You have to download the Tools CD from MSDN and then read the release notes. So, I'm putting the WSS08 default admin password here in case it makes a little easier to find for people who search the Internet before they read all the docs. (And who's going to read the Tools docs before they install the basic software?)
So, with "wSS2008!" you can now log in to your fresh install of the fantastic new Windows Storage Server 2008. Ta-da!!
Now what's the first thing you're going to do after you log in...? CHANGE THE DEFAULT PASSWORD, if you're smart.
34 comments:
Thank you! I don't understand the logic behind using a default password instead of what the rest of the Windows Server 2008 SKUs do, but this post definitely saved me loads of time.
Thanks V much... I was going a little mental here
Thank you!!!
Eric
Thank you....as usual, the MS TechNet support team is hopeless. Their service level is going downhill. They are "still gathering information" when I log my case 2 days ago :(
...A very disastified customer
Thank you - VERY much! Just spent the better of an hour trying to find just that, you saved the day:-)
Thanks Man !!!
Was really looking for this ...
Thanks alot...man...this saved me.
Great time saver, thanks! - See you at the tables one day :-)
Rock on! Thanks, this saved me a ton of time on Google. :)
another one of those unexplainable things from MS.
Thanx! Was really goning nuts wit this. though i was having a blackout in the middle of installation and putting a password that i couldn't remember. Like one of those mentalist stuff...
TX AGAIN! I'M NOT GOING CRAZY!
Yet another Thank You!
thanks alot, you saved my day
Thanks for sharing this. Saves a lot of time.
Good work!
Good work!
No it isnt....
installed 2008 storage server and no password works
"installed 2008 storage server and no password works"
If you mean that it now installs with a null password, then they've changed the installation image.
If you mean that no password will work, including the one I listed, then I suggest you try it again. It's documented, it worked for me, and it worked for all the other folks who posted comments here.
Oh thanks a lot man. u just saved my life.
Thank You !!!!
Thanks x 1000 000!!!
//Erik
thanks a mill
thanks!!
Thank you so much.
Thanks! Was installing many different systems late last night and thought I must have keyed the password in wrong somewhere so even reinstalled it.
So thanks again for putting this out there :)
Thanks for the handy tip!
Unbelivable!! Why have this password on Storage Server and when no password is needed for any other version om server 2008... It took me two nights before I found out. Thank you very much :-)
(haha, I acually tried WSS2008)
You rock thanks man!!
Cheers for this
Thank you very much that has to be one of the most annoying things I have encountered in a long while...
Thank-you! It did make things much easier. checking the cd was going to be my next step.
Thanks very much, you're a life saver.
MS on the other hand are a bunch of...
Thanks... I reinstalled Win08 SS twice before I started looking for the default password.
Thanks. Just installed it twice as I thorght I had missed the page for default administrator password.
Security is a bit over the top when the user installing the OS can't login.
BIG thanks.
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