URGENT: Reset several hundred passwords to random

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Stephan Elsner

I need a tool that sets several hundred user passwords to a random
generated one and mail it to the user.
This is because all passwords expired (that should vener happen, but we
forgot to set the flag) and can't be changed by the users themselves.

This is very urgent....

Thank you

/Stephan
 
Interesting...
If you are resetting the user's password and then you e-mail it to
the user. How is the user going to logon and read its mail without
knowing the password? The only way to do that is by distributing the
password to the user personally or by phone. Just make sure you give
the password to the right person.

From Microsoft's scripting site:
Assign a Password to a User -> http://www.microsoft.
com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/ad/users/pwds/uspwvb01.mspx
Require Users to Change Their Password -> http://www.microsoft.
com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/ad/users/pwds/uspwvb12.mspx

Cheers,
# Jorge de Almeida Pinto #
 
I don't know of anything that does this in the box, you will need to script it.

If you can find cusrmgr it will do the random password set, you will need to
write the email part. Honestly might as well write the whole thing.

Not sure why you don't let user's set their own password, what kind of security
is that supposed to be?
 
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