Set-ADAccountPassword -Identity myuser -Reset -NewPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText 'newpassword' -Force)However, it was coming back with the following despite running the Powershell console as Administrator:
Set-ADAccountPassword : Access is denied
At line:1 char:22
+ Set-ADAccountPassword <<<< -Identity myuser -Reset -NewPassword (ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText 'newpassword' -Force)
+ CategoryInfo : PermissionDenied: (christys:ADAccount) [Set-ADAccountPassword], UnauthorizedAccessException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Access is denied,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.SetADAccountPasswordI did a quick search and found this, which didn't help, but it did inspire me to try this:
$newpassword = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText 'newpassword' -Force
Set-ADAccountPassword -Identity myuser -Reset -NewPassword $newpassword
This worked well.
Thanks for the post. In case anyone else comes across this issue, for my situation the issue was UAC on Server 2012 being enabled. I could do just about everything else in an elevated powershell console but setting the password always failed with the above error until I disabled UAC.
ReplyDeleteI got the same error when trying to use " (double quotes) instead of a tic ('). I had a $ as part of the password. The simple things...
ReplyDeleteNICE! Worked for me as well.
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