Guest rvaas Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Hi everybody, I want to create a shortcut to open the change password dialog for the current user. The users can´t use Ctrl-Alt-Del because they only connect via Terminal Server - and they asked whether they could change their passwords whenever they want (it works when the password expires, but they want to control when they change it). Is there a way to open that dialog via explorer with command line options or WMI call (maybe via VBS) to open that dialog? Kind regards, Rudi
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Re: Shortcut to change password dialog "rvaas" <rvaas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4CEB74A3-79A2-437B-A425-F025808E1395@microsoft.com... > Hi everybody, > I want to create a shortcut to open the change password dialog for the > current user. The users can´t use Ctrl-Alt-Del because they only connect > via > Terminal Server - and they asked whether they could change their passwords > whenever they want (it works when the password expires, but they want to > control when they change it). > Is there a way to open that dialog via explorer with command line options > or > WMI call (maybe via VBS) to open that dialog? > > Kind regards, > Rudi No need for a shortcut - get the users to press Ctrl+Alt+End while on the Terminal Server. If you still insist on using an alternative method to change the password then you can embed the following command into a batch file: net user %UserName% NewPassword /domain
Guest rvaas Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Re: Shortcut to change password dialog > > No need for a shortcut - get the users to press Ctrl+Alt+End while > on the Terminal Server. > > If you still insist on using an alternative method to change the password > then you can embed the following command into a batch file: > > net user %UserName% NewPassword /domain > > Hi Pegasus (MVP), thank you for your quick response, when I execute your batch command I receive a - request will be processed by a domain controller - system error 5. Hitting ctrl-alt-del does not work for them as they are logged into their local machine with accounts from a different and unknown domain. And they should be able to change their accounts in our domain, which is used to log on to Terminal Server. Kind regards, Rudi
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted November 23, 2007 Posted November 23, 2007 Re: Shortcut to change password dialog "rvaas" <rvaas@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:864F6DA2-1D77-4683-BC62-960B01894D36@microsoft.com... >> >> No need for a shortcut - get the users to press Ctrl+Alt+End while >> on the Terminal Server. >> >> If you still insist on using an alternative method to change the password >> then you can embed the following command into a batch file: >> >> net user %UserName% NewPassword /domain >> >> > Hi Pegasus (MVP), > thank you for your quick response, when I execute your batch command I > receive a - request will be processed by a domain controller - system > error 5. > Hitting ctrl-alt-del does not work for them as they are logged into their > local machine with accounts from a different and unknown domain. And they > should be able to change their accounts in our domain, which is used to > log > on to Terminal Server. > > Kind regards, > Rudi I did not write "Ctrl+Alt+Del" - I wrote "Ctrl+Alt+End"!
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