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T-Hyde
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Mar 21, 2022
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Change password on logon grayed out on user accounts

I encountered an issue today that I can't seem to find any info on. I'm a domain admin using Windows server 2016 and I'm having a password reset issue. I was able to click the reset password window o...
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    Gary_Reynolds
    Mar 22, 2022
    If you have the password doesn't expire option enabled, the use will not be prompted to change, even if you manually set the PwdLastSet attribute to zero. You will need to remove the password doesn't expire option, then set change the password at next logon. Then once the user has changed their password, set the password doesn't expire again.
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Gary_Reynolds
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Mar 22, 2022
If you have the password doesn't expire option enabled, the use will not be prompted to change, even if you manually set the PwdLastSet attribute to zero. You will need to remove the password doesn't expire option, then set change the password at next logon. Then once the user has changed their password, set the password doesn't expire again.

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