How to change credentials for Remote Desktop
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As a regular user of Remote Desktop sessions, you may have been confronted with the case to change your password. Control-Alt-Delete (CTRL-ALT-DEL) doesn’t allow you to change the password in the remote session, but instead gives you a menu on your actual host Change password in Remote DesktopThere are many ways to change your password. Of course, when you’re working on your physical computer, you may just hit CTRL-ALT-DEL, but this won’t work in an RDP session CTRL-ALT-ENDSometimes (but not always), CTRL-ALT-END helps you “ctrl-alt-delete” the session to change your password in the remote session. CTRL-ALT-END is the equivalent to CTRL-ALT-DELETE in RDP. However it depends on the OS-version session settings whether this works or not. On screen keyboardThe On Screen Keyboard (OSK) is a virtual keyboard on your screen. This works in Windows Server 2012 / Windows 7 and higher. To reset your password with the OSK, follow these steps:
Run the shellYou can directly launch the shell to get the Windows Security Options displayed. To do so, open the Run-box or open a command prompt and copy-paste: C:\Windows\explorer.exe shell:::{2559a1f2-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0} Run a VBS-scriptThis one is nice too. Copy paste the lines below to a Notepad and save the file as securityoptions.vbs . Then open/run/execute the VBS. It will launch the Windows Security Options screen to change the password ************************************ Set objShell = CreateObject(“Shell.Application”) objShell.WindowsSecurity *********************************** ALTGR-ENDIn case you have a keyboard with the ALTGR-key, you may also use ALTGR+END to simulate CTRL-ALT-DELETE. I believe German keyboards in particuar have this key. Reset your password in an RDP sessionIn contrast to changing a password, resetting a password does not require you to remember the current password. Instead you just overwrite the existing password (if any) and set a new password. Active Directory Users and ComputersWhen logged on to a computer that has active directory tools installed, you may use Active Directory Users and Computers to reset the password . You need user account privileges to do so, however.
Net userAssuming it’s a local user (so NOT a domain user account), you can use net user to change a users’ password. To do so:
Powershell: Set-ADAccountPasswordIn case of a domain user account, you may use the Set-ADAccountPassword cmdlet in Powershell. Note that the Active Directory module must be loaded. Set-ADAccountPassword -Identity Peter -NewPassword (Read-Host -Prompt “Provide New Password” -AsSecureString) -Reset Powershell: Set-LocalUserIn case of a local user, you may use the Set-LocalUser cmdlet in Powershell to reset a local users’ password Get-LocalUser ‘Peter’ | Set-LocalUser -Password (Read-Host -Prompt “Provide New Password” -AsSecureString) |