UMRA – Bulk Active Directory User Password Reset at 6:06 PM

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UMRA – Bulk Active Directory User Password Reset

After looking through some of my blog statics I see there is a real interest in some of the Bulk UMRA Password Resets on Active Directory users. So this blog will be about the different ways you can go about resting Active Directory Passwords either in bulk, or on a one of basis. So now if you haven’t already go download User Management Resource Administrator, developed by tools4ever. This will get you up to speed with the examples and other topics I am talking about. So lets start with the basics, and answers a few questions quickly. How, fast can UMRA rest passwords. It can reset about 10 a second if now a bit more, I’ve personally done a complete active directory password reset on 5k users, and it took about ten minutes. So, as you can see UMRA is a very fast tool, in completing the tasks you need to do on Active Directory. Now below is a quick way you can update some of users in active directory passwords.

Now, keep in mind there are hundreds of way you can reset your users passwords with UMRA, and this will just go over a typical way we’ve done it for our clients. So first thing is first, the “data” now when I say “data” what does this mean, it means the data we will use to figure out who we will reset. Now, depending on what UMRA module you have, you can use different types of data. For this example though, we will just use CSV data. Now, we will assume this CSV has the usernames of the users in Active Directory you want to update. Another big decision you will have to figure out is, what do you want to set the users password to, most likely you don’t want to change them all to the same thing, so some of the things you can do are… Take an Active Directory Attribute, such as employeeid, and maybe the users lastname combine those together, and use that as the user’s new password. But also, at the same time, flag the Active Directory account to be changed upon the next successful login. So once you have your script all ready with the work flow above, or your own flow, just run one user through, or run them all through, and in minutes you’ve completed your Bulk Active Directory Password Reset.

So I hope this helps some of you out there, who might be trying to create such a script. As you can see it’s a fairly simple script to create, and really quick and easy to run.