How to make a default password for new users and when the password is reset on a user

Hi,

   I have several users each day that forget their password , it is quite a hassle to retype the default password for each user. Also when new workers come in I always create user accounts with the default password. 

Any advice will be helpful

Thanks

June 30th, 2015 12:16pm

To reset a password, write a simple PowerShell script to ask for the username to reset.  Have the default password as a constant in the PowerShell script.

Look into template user accounts for creating new accounts with pre-defined values.

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June 30th, 2015 3:15pm

Hi RonenR,

Thanks for your post.

Yes, you could force to reset the password with default value.

For example, in my example, user=Mary, default password=Password$123, and user can change the password when next logon.

Set-ADAccountPassword Mary -NewPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -String "Password$123" -AsPlainText -Force) -Reset -PassThru | Set-ADuser -ChangePasswordAtLogon $True

Best Regards,

Mary Dong

July 1st, 2015 2:17am

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