Changing Password

Question

Hi Experts,

Is there any way so I can reset the local Administrator Password of my domain-joined computers from a single script or window?

Answer 1

Hey,

Please see the following link:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4683.how-to-change-a-local-administrator-password-with-group-policy.aspx

Answer 2

Hi there,

The Reset-ComputerMachinePassword cmdlet changes the computer account password that the computers use to authenticate to the domain controllers in the domain. You can use it to reset the password of the local computer.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/reset-computermachinepassword?view=powershell-5.1

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Answer 3

Hi,

You might want to look at installing Microsoft LAPS in your environment, it will increase the security of your environment and workstations, by moving the local password management to the AD, with automatic periodic password changes. You can also manually trigger the changing of the local admin password from your machine using a powershell command or GUI for your machine.

You can download here and the operation guide is included
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899

Gary.