![]() ![]() But he does appear to be ready for winter. SD, luckily the little critter whose picture I took in Chattanooga, TN, is not actually a network user. Neither is the desired reader experience for this blog. I could spend nearly a week writing such stories from my own experience, but by the end of the week, you would either be bored or in tears. More pedestrian user stories nearly always surround users and passwords. The broken retractable “cup holder” on the computer, and the missing “any key” are two such stories that spring to mind. Yet, I cannot count the number of times when I was a network administrator and I received phone calls at night and on weekends from co-workers who were attempting to perform a similar operation on their home computers. I mean, welders do not get evening phone calls from their co-workers who are trying to weld aluminum with a 3/32 7018 rod and are experiencing predictably poor results, do they? Because a user has a computer at home, they tend to think they know all about computers at work. There may be many reasons for this, but I think one of the main causes is simply the proliferation of computers and the way in which they have touched nearly every aspect of life. It is almost inevitable that when a group of network administrators get together, their stories soon involve clueless users. ![]() We need to implement a self-serve password solution, but those things are expensive. This has gotten worse since we began to enforce password complexity and shortened the amount of time between password changes. This is a real problem because we have many calls to the help desk from users who for whatever reason are forgetting their passwords. The problem is that when I attempt something like that using Windows PowerShell, it fails. ![]() In the VBScript days, I had a script that I had essentially copied from the How Can I Change a User’s Password? Scripting Guy post. Hey, Scripting Guy! I need to be able to change a user’s password by using Windows PowerShell. Summary: The Scripting Guys discuss using Windows PowerShell to change a user’s Active Directory password in this how-to article. ![]()
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