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Active Directory with PowerShell
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Active Directory with PowerShell

by Pamarthi Venkata Sitaram, YELLAPRAGADA U PADMAVATHI
January 2015
Intermediate to advanced
230 pages
5h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Resetting the password for multiple user accounts

Often, Windows administrators get requests to reset the password for a bunch of users. You can do this via a GUI approach if you have the time and patience. Otherwise, use the following function, which is an efficient way to do this. This function prompts for the password that you want to set for the users. This password should match the password complexity policy of your domain. You can pass the list of users to the UserName parameter either as a Comma-Separated Value or by reading from a text file:

Function Reset-ADuserPassword { [CmdletBinding()] Param( [string[]]$UserName ) $Password = Read-Host "Enter the password that you want to set for the users" -AsSecureString foreach($User in $UserName) ...
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