authenticationMethod: resetPassword

Namespace: microsoft.graph

Reset a user's password, represented by a password authentication method object. This can only be done by an administrator with appropriate permissions and can't be performed on a user's own account.

To reset a user's password in Azure AD B2C, use the Update user API operation and update the passwordProfile > forceChangePasswordNextSignIn object.

This flow writes the new password to Microsoft Entra ID and pushes it to on-premises Active Directory if configured using password writeback. The admin can either provide a new password or have the system generate one. The user is prompted to change their password on their next sign in.

This reset is a long-running operation and returns a Location header with a link where the caller can periodically check for the status of the reset operation.

This API is available in the following national cloud deployments.

Global service	US Government L4	US Government L5 (DOD)	China operated by 21Vianet
✅	✅	✅	❌

Permissions

Choose the permission or permissions marked as least privileged for this API. Use a higher privileged permission or permissions only if your app requires it. For details about delegated and application permissions, see Permission types. To learn more about these permissions, see the permissions reference.

Permission type	Least privileged permissions	Higher privileged permissions
Delegated (work or school account)	UserAuthenticationMethod.ReadWrite.All	Not available.
Delegated (personal Microsoft account)	Not supported.	Not supported.
Application	Not supported.	Not supported.

In delegated scenarios with work or school accounts, the signed-in user must be assigned a supported Microsoft Entra role or a custom role with a supported role permission. The following least privileged roles are supported for this operation.

• Authentication Administrator
• Privileged Authentication Administrator

Admins with User Administrator, Helpdesk Administrator, or Password Administrator roles can also reset passwords for non-admin users and a limited set of admin roles as defined in Who can reset passwords.

HTTP request

The ID of the password authentication method, referenced by {passwordMethods-id}, is always 28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490.

POST /users/{id | userPrincipalName}/authentication/methods/{passwordMethods-id}/resetPassword

Request headers

Name	Description
Authorization	Bearer {token}. Required. Learn more about authentication and authorization.
Content-type	application/json. Required.

Request body

In the request body, provide a JSON object with the following parameters.

Parameter	Type	Description
newPassword	String	The new password. Required for tenants with hybrid password scenarios. If omitted for a cloud-only password, the system returns a system-generated password. This is a unicode string with no other encoding. It's validated against the tenant's banned password system before acceptance, and must adhere to the tenant's cloud and/or on-premises password requirements.

Response

If the caller provided a password in the request body, this method returns a 202 Accepted response code and no response body. The response might also include a Location header with a URL to check the status of the reset operation.

If the caller used the system-generated password option, this method returns a 202 Accepted response code and a passwordResetResponse object in the response body which contains a Microsoft-generated password. The response might also include a Location header with a URL to check the status of the reset operation.

Response headers

Name	Description
Location	URL to call to check the status of the operation. Required.
Retry-after	Duration in seconds. Optional.

Examples

Example 1: User-submitted password

The following example shows how to call this API when the caller submits a password.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0/authentication/methods/28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490/resetPassword
Content-type: application/json

{
    "newPassword": "Cuyo5459"
}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Users.Item.Authentication.Methods.Item.ResetPassword;

var requestBody = new ResetPasswordPostRequestBody
{
	NewPassword = "Cuyo5459",
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.Methods["{authenticationMethod-id}"].ResetPassword.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc users authentication methods reset-password post --user-id {user-id} --authentication-method-id {authenticationMethod-id} --body '{\
    "newPassword": "Cuyo5459"\
}\
'

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/users"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphusers.NewResetPasswordPostRequestBody()
newPassword := "Cuyo5459"
requestBody.SetNewPassword(&newPassword) 

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
resetPassword, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().Methods().ByAuthenticationMethodId("authenticationMethod-id").ResetPassword().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.users.item.authentication.methods.item.resetpassword.ResetPasswordPostRequestBody resetPasswordPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.users.item.authentication.methods.item.resetpassword.ResetPasswordPostRequestBody();
resetPasswordPostRequestBody.setNewPassword("Cuyo5459");
var result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().methods().byAuthenticationMethodId("{authenticationMethod-id}").resetPassword().post(resetPasswordPostRequestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const passwordResetResponse = {
    newPassword: 'Cuyo5459'
};

await client.api('/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0/authentication/methods/28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490/resetPassword')
	.post(passwordResetResponse);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Users\Item\Authentication\Methods\Item\ResetPassword\ResetPasswordPostRequestBody;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new ResetPasswordPostRequestBody();
$requestBody->setNewPassword('Cuyo5459');

$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->methods()->byAuthenticationMethodId('authenticationMethod-id')->resetPassword()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Users.Actions

$params = @{
	newPassword = "Cuyo5459"
}

Reset-MgUserAuthenticationMethodPassword -UserId $userId -AuthenticationMethodId $authenticationMethodId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.users.item.authentication.methods.item.reset_password.reset_password_post_request_body import ResetPasswordPostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ResetPasswordPostRequestBody(
	new_password = "Cuyo5459",
)

result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').authentication.methods.by_authentication_method_id('authenticationMethod-id').reset_password.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Content-type: application/json
Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0/authentication/operations/88e7560c-9ebf-435c-8089-c3998ac1ec51?aadgdc=DUB02P&aadgsu=ssprprod-a

Example 2: System-generated password

The following example shows how to call this API when the caller doesn't submit a password.

Request

The following example shows a request.

HTTP

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0/authentication/methods/28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490/resetPassword

{

}

C#

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 5.x

// Dependencies
using Microsoft.Graph.Users.Item.Authentication.Methods.Item.ResetPassword;

var requestBody = new ResetPasswordPostRequestBody
{
};

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=csharp
var result = await graphClient.Users["{user-id}"].Authentication.Methods["{authenticationMethod-id}"].ResetPassword.PostAsync(requestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

CLI

mgc users authentication methods reset-password post --user-id {user-id} --authentication-method-id {authenticationMethod-id}

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Go

// Code snippets are only available for the latest major version. Current major version is $v1.*

// Dependencies
import (
	  "context"
	  msgraphsdk "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go"
	  graphusers "github.com/microsoftgraph/msgraph-sdk-go/users"
	  //other-imports
)

requestBody := graphusers.NewResetPasswordPostRequestBody()

// To initialize your graphClient, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=go
resetPassword, err := graphClient.Users().ByUserId("user-id").Authentication().Methods().ByAuthenticationMethodId("authenticationMethod-id").ResetPassword().Post(context.Background(), requestBody, nil)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Java

// Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 6.x

GraphServiceClient graphClient = new GraphServiceClient(requestAdapter);

com.microsoft.graph.users.item.authentication.methods.item.resetpassword.ResetPasswordPostRequestBody resetPasswordPostRequestBody = new com.microsoft.graph.users.item.authentication.methods.item.resetpassword.ResetPasswordPostRequestBody();
var result = graphClient.users().byUserId("{user-id}").authentication().methods().byAuthenticationMethodId("{authenticationMethod-id}").resetPassword().post(resetPasswordPostRequestBody);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

JavaScript

const options = {
	authProvider,
};

const client = Client.init(options);

const passwordResetResponse = {

};

await client.api('/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0/authentication/methods/28c10230-6103-485e-b985-444c60001490/resetPassword')
	.post(passwordResetResponse);

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PHP

<?php
use Microsoft\Graph\GraphServiceClient;
use Microsoft\Graph\Generated\Users\Item\Authentication\Methods\Item\ResetPassword\ResetPasswordPostRequestBody;


$graphServiceClient = new GraphServiceClient($tokenRequestContext, $scopes);

$requestBody = new ResetPasswordPostRequestBody();

$result = $graphServiceClient->users()->byUserId('user-id')->authentication()->methods()->byAuthenticationMethodId('authenticationMethod-id')->resetPassword()->post($requestBody)->wait();

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

PowerShell

Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Users.Actions

$params = @{
}

Reset-MgUserAuthenticationMethodPassword -UserId $userId -AuthenticationMethodId $authenticationMethodId -BodyParameter $params

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Python

# Code snippets are only available for the latest version. Current version is 1.x
from msgraph import GraphServiceClient
from msgraph.generated.users.item.authentication.methods.item.reset_password.reset_password_post_request_body import ResetPasswordPostRequestBody
# To initialize your graph_client, see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/sdks/create-client?from=snippets&tabs=python
request_body = ResetPasswordPostRequestBody(
)

result = await graph_client.users.by_user_id('user-id').authentication.methods.by_authentication_method_id('authenticationMethod-id').reset_password.post(request_body)

For details about how to add the SDK to your project and create an authProvider instance, see the SDK documentation.

Response

The following example shows the response. You can use the ID in the Location header to check the status of the operation via the long-running operation API.

Note: The response object shown here might be shortened for readability.

HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Location: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users/6ea91a8d-e32e-41a1-b7bd-d2d185eed0e0/authentication/operations/77bafe36-3ac0-4f89-96e4-a4a5a48da851?aadgdc=DUB02P&aadgsu=ssprprod-a
Content-type: application/json

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#microsoft.graph.passwordResetResponse",
    "newPassword": "Cuyo5459"
}