New students how to change passwords in Office 365?

[zag]

I've got our new year 7s in tomorrow and have setup all their Office 365 accounts with a CSV import.

 

Each student has a temporary password and I've printed these all out ready to go.

 

How do they change their passwords once logged in? I get asked nothing on login, and clicking the change password on their accounts throws up an error and link to a non existant help page!

[zag]

Nevermind, seems I had to reset the user passwords manually.

 

Then when they login they see the change password screens.

[Michael]

Check out some PowerShell commands here

 

You could set all user accounts with the same default password then optionally force users to change theirs (for example)

[adhutton]

You need to get the Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj151815.aspx

 

Install the MSIs on your Administrator PC then pop it open and run this command:

 

Import-Csv "Passwords2reset.csv"|%{Set-MsolUserPassword -userPrincipalName $_.UserPrincipalName –NewPassword YOURNEWPASSWORD -ForceChangePassword $true}

 

This allows you to reset a list of passwords to the same new password and then each user has to change their password when they login.

 

The CSV has to be in the format:

 

"UserPrincipalName"

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Hope this helps?

 

Andrew

Edited July 3, 2013 by adhutton