How To Force Users To Change Account Password At Next Login In Windows 10
Sofie Kovalcheck
there is no policy for this. on the day in question when you are ready to force the password change you will have to log into AD select your users an edit their account properties to require password change at next logon.
I have not fully used for bulk edits, but have used for a handful of users to force their accounts to password changes. This will allow you to pick your the containers and users you need and set the attribute for the password to be changed, while skipping over critical admin accounts.
How to force users to change Account Password at next Login in Windows 10
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I'm trying to grant a service account permissions to reset password for other user accounts but it's not working as expected. I've read many articles regarding this but didn't get the desired outcome. I got to the point where the service account is able to reset password for other users but they need to set a new one when they log on. On the reset password dialog the option "User must change password at next logon" is available and the service account can check/uncheck it but it doesn't count, the user has to set a new password no matter what. Under account options the service account is able to check this option but it can't uncheck it. What am I missing here? How can I accomplish this?
You can confirm if the user is required to change their password at next logon by looking at the pwdlastset attribute, if the pwdlastset attribute is set to 0 (zero), the user must change their password at next logon.
I can see that the service account has these 2 permissions. As a matter of fact I even gave it full control over the users OU but it doesn't work nevertheless.
I tried to give permissions through the Delegate Control wizard, I joined the service account to Account Operators group, I even tried through the security tab of the OU but nothing worked.
I'll be glad to hear more ideas.
Are you doing these test using the same TEST user?
Have you test that the user that are you trying to reset the password has inherited the perimissions of your reset-password users? (user properties=>Security=>Advanced=> INCLUDE INHERITABLE PERMISSIONS FROM THIS OBJECT'S PARENT) ?
@GaryReynolds-8098 - As I said test1 is able to reset password for test2 but test2 is forced to set a new one. I've tried the delegation wizard, joined test1 to Account Operators group and even gave test1 full permissions over the OU containing test2 but nothing helped.
In Windows 11, administrators of local user accounts can force members to reset their respective passwords on their next login by making a simple change on a specific configuration screen. Navigating to this screen requires a few steps and may involve a less-than-intuitive flip of more than one switch, but doing so will force you users to reset their Windows 11 login passwords.
Clicking the Advanced button reveals the Local Users and Groups manager (Figure C). Click on the Users folder to reveal the list of local users. This screen is where we will make our settings changes to force users to reset their passwords.
Right click a username from the list, and select Properties from the dropdown context menu, which will open the Properties screen for that specific user (Figure D). We are interested in the set of checkboxes at the bottom of this screen.
We want to place a check in the first checkbox, which is labeled User must change password at next logon. But, in many cases, that setting may be grayed out and unavailable. To make it available, first uncheck the box labeled Password never expires.
When the change to settings is complete, click Apply and then OK to finish the process. Perform this task on other users from the list as you see fit, and when you have finished, you can exit both the Local Users and Groups manager and the User Accounts control panel.
There are other methods for forcing individuals to reset their Windows 11 login passwords, which involve administrative tools found in Azure. These tools are designed for organizations with more than a few users and require more in-depth tutorials.
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As an administrator, you can reset a user's password if the user forgets their password. Or you would like to force them to reset the password. In this article, you'll learn how to force a password reset in these scenarios.
When an administrator resets a user's password via the Azure portal, the value of the forceChangePasswordNextSignIn attribute is set to true. The sign-in and sign-up journey checks the value of this attribute. After the user completes the sign-in, if the attribute is set to true, the user must reset their password. Then the value of the attribute is set to back false.
Get the example of the force password reset policy on GitHub. In each file, replace the string yourtenant with the name of your Azure AD B2C tenant. For example, if the name of your B2C tenant is contosob2c, all instances of yourtenant.onmicrosoft.com become contosob2c.onmicrosoft.com.
To force reset the password on next login, update the account password profile using MS Graph Update user operation. To do this, you need to assign your Microsoft Graph application the User administrator role. Follow the steps in Grant user administrator role to assign your Microsoft Graph application a User administrator role.
As an administrator, you can set a user's password expiration to 90 days, using MS Graph. After 90 days, the value of forceChangePasswordNextSignIn attribute is automatically set to true. To force a password reset after 90 days, remove the DisablePasswordExpiration value from the user's profile Password policy attribute.
By default, the password is set not to expire. However, the value is configurable by using the Update-MgDomain cmdlet from the Microsoft Graph PowerShell module. This command updates the tenant so that all users' passwords expire after a number of days you configure. For example:
passwordValidityPeriodInDays indicates the length of time in days that a password remains valid before it must be changed. passwordNotificationWindowInDays indicates the length of time in days before the password expiration date when users receive their first notification to indicate that their password is about to expire.
Open the Active Directory Users and Computers and then select the user you want to enforce them to change their password and there is an option called User must change password at next logon if you checked it, then next time when user has been logged it, they will be forced to change their password.
Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) is the central component for identity and access management in Microsoft Azure, and by extension, Microsoft 365. Managing users and passwords for organization accounts requires understanding how Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) handles password changes, especially when accounts are synchronized from on-premises Active Directory environments.
Generally speaking, most organizations migrating to a hybrid infrastructure utilizing resources in Microsoft 365 will configure Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly Azure AD Connect). Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly Azure AD Connect) is a tool organizations use to synchronize their on-premises Active Directory Domain Services accounts to Entra ID (formerly Azure AD).
Admins install and step through the synchronization wizard in Microsoft Entra Connect (formerly Azure AD Connect) to configure the various account and password synchronization options between the on-premises Active Directory environment and Entra ID (formerly Azure AD.
For on-prem or hybrid Azure joined workstations this is not an issue. The user authentication is done against on prem domain AD and the user is forced to change their password (as long as the user is on network and not logging in with cached credentials):
For purely Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) joined machines, the user is authenticated against Azure when signing in, and Microsoft will never force a password change before logging into the workstation. We might speculate that this is a side effect of removing the change password dialog shown above from Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Joined machines; if a user hits Ctrl+Alt+Del and selects change password, they are taken back to their login session and a Microsoft change password page is opened in their default browser.
If a user working exclusively on an Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) joined workstation does not proactively change their password, they may not be forced to until the next time they sign in on a new device.
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Hello i created taskpads for remote admins to reset passwords for folks at their site.I created a group for admins and gave delegation on site OU. The problem is for doing "force change password on next logon", there are certain permissions on user objects which needs enabled. So i enabled "ReadPWDLastSet" and "WritePWDLastSet" as well as "Password Reset" on user objects for admin group. Unfortunately when the right click on the user, the "User must change password on next logon" is greyed out, but in User Properties->Account tab, "User must change password on next logon" is not greyed out and they can select it. Why is it happening what attributes they need to have it enabled when they do "Right Click and reset password.".
There is a bug in Server 2003 that causes this to happen. The a MS KB article that fixes exactly the problem you are describing. If you have already obtained the relevant service pack, then perhaps @EvanAnderson's answer would help you out.
Once I did this I opened a copy of "Active Directory Users and Computers" as the "PWReset" user and found that I was able to reset the "Test1" user's password and tick the box "User must change password at next logon" box.
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