Active Directory Domain Services 2008 : Manage Active Directory Domain Services Data - Reset a User Account Password

7/18/2011 11:34:35 AM

Reset an AD DS user account password by using the Windows interface or by using the command line.

To reset a user account password by using the Windows interface, perform the following steps:

1.	Log on to a domain controller or a member computer that has Windows Server 2008 RSAT installed.
2.	Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
3.	In the details pane, right-click the user account on which you want to reset the password; then click Reset Password.
4.	In the Reset Password window, shown in Figure 1, type a password in the Password and Confirm password fields, specify whether the user must change his password at next logon, specify whether the user account should be unlocked, and click OK. Figure 1. Resetting a user account password using the Windows interface.

To reset a user account password by using the command line, perform the following steps:

1.	Log on to a domain controller.
2.	Click Start, and click Command Prompt.
3.	In the Command Prompt window, type the following command and press Enter: Dsmod user "CN=Jonathan Smith,OU=New York,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=local" -pwd Hello01! -mustchpwd no (where "CN=Jonathan Smith,OU=New York,DC=WS08DOMAIN01,DC=local" is the distinguished name of the user for which you want to reset the password, -pwd is the new password, and –mustchpwd specifies whether the user must change his password at next logon).
4.	Verify that the results of the dsmod user command entered above returns dsmod succeeded, as shown in Figure 2. Figure 2. Resetting a user account password using the command line.

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