Force user password change flag?

Does anyone know of a way to force the "user must change password.." flag to
be set by default when a manual password is performed? Thanks.

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Shawn Keslar
Professional Technologist
West Virginia University
PO Box 6860
Morgantown WV 26506-6860

sdkeslar wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to force the "user must change password.." flag to
> be set by default when a manual password is performed? Thanks.
>
What You mean by manual password? If this reset is performed from
script You may set pwdLastSet value to 0 which will force user to change
password at next logon.

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Tomasz Onyszko
http://www.w2k.pl/blog/ - (PL)
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/ - (EN)

When someone uses AD Users and Computers to reset the password, we'd like to
force the server to enable the checkbox by default.

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Shawn Keslar
Professional Technologist
West Virginia University
PO Box 6860
Morgantown WV 26506-6860


"Tomasz Onyszko" wrote:

> sdkeslar wrote:
> > Does anyone know of a way to force the "user must change password.." flag to
> > be set by default when a manual password is performed? Thanks.
> >
> What You mean by manual password? If this reset is performed from
> script You may set pwdLastSet value to 0 which will force user to change
> password at next logon.
>
> --
> Tomasz Onyszko
> http://www.w2k.pl/blog/ - (PL)
> http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/ - (EN)
>

sdkeslar wrote:
> When someone uses AD Users and Computers to reset the password, we'd like to
> force the server to enable the checkbox by default.
>
No, there's no way to enhance ADU&C to do this unless You will add your
custom action do ADU&C

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Tomasz Onyszko
http://www.w2k.pl/blog/ - (PL)
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/ - (EN)

"Tomasz Onyszko" <T.Onyszko_nospam_@w2k.pl> wrote in message
news:...
> sdkeslar wrote:
>> When someone uses AD Users and Computers to reset the password, we'd like
>> to force the server to enable the checkbox by default.
>>
> No, there's no way to enhance ADU&C to do this unless You will add your
> custom action do ADU&C

Tomasz is correct.

It would also be VERY difficult to do that correctly and
conviently since there is no built-in way to detect the
difference between a "service account" and a "normal
user."

There are also instances (e.g., dial user, web) where support
must set the password which may not be easy even for
a normal user to (immediately) change.

You can certainly write a script to do this, but it should document
very carefully that it does both Reset and Require Change.


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