Reset Bulk Account Passwords in AD

[abillybob]

Hey Guys,

 

I have got around 30 kids selected in AD and all need their password reset because the class has forgotten them *sigh* is there an easy way while selected to change their passwords to a generic one and then make them change it on next login...?

 

I'm sure I'm missing something here I just can't see an option?!

 

Cheers

[Ant]

Hey Guys,

 

I have got around 30 kids selected in AD and all need their password reset because the class has forgotten them *sigh* is there an easy way while selected to change their passwords to a generic one and then make them change it on next login...?

 

I'm sure I'm missing something here I just can't see an option?!

 

Cheers

I've used Wisesoft's Bulk AD USers for years without issue. You can make other bulk changes too.

 

Edited September 10, 2014 by Ant

[Davit2005]

I had a script to do this on OU basis if thats any good

 

dsquery user "OU=[PATH TO OU],DC=SCHOOL,DC=local" -limit 0 | DSMOD user -pwd password

 

If running this could afterwards select multiple accounts in AD and set the password to require change on next logon.

[abillybob]

Cheers guys, unfortunately can't use the OU script because there are users in the OU that don't want their password changing, thanks though!

 

I will give Wisesofts application ago

[Davit2005]

No problem.

 

Why not just temp move the students into a another OU.

[maniac]

ADModify will reset passwords in bulk.

 

Mike.

[abillybob]

@Ant, sorry mate. I have tried signing up for it but they haven't sent me the code via email?? :/

[Ant]

@Ant, sorry mate. I have tried signing up for it but they haven't sent me the code via email?? :/

If you're registered and logged in, you can get your reg code from the site. To the right of the screen there's a link to the registration code, Here. If you have problems registering you can manually download the licence file from there too.

 

I don't think the site or software gets supported anymore which is a shame.

[abillybob]

Ok so I have finally activated my account and it says activation was successful but I still can't get my registration code!!!????

[pcstru]

In powershell you can

 

Import-Module ActiveDirectory
Get-AdUser -Searchbase "OU=Students, DC=school, DC=sch, DC=uk" -Filter * | Select-Object sAMAccountName | Export-csv c:\tmp\tmp.csv

 

You can then edit the data in the CSV to include only those you want to change password for and then run :

 

$AccList=Import-CSV c:\tmp\tmp.csv
$Pass = "Password"

foreach ($acc in $accList) {
   Get-ADUser $($acc.sAMAccountName) | Set-ADAccountPassword -Reset -NewPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText $($acc.Password) -Force)                      
}

to change the password.

Edited September 10, 2014 by pcstru

[abillybob]

Cheers Mate that seemed to do the trick!

[pcstru]

That $($acc.Password) in the change line should be $Pass. Sorry, I'm hacking that out of one of my larger scripts.