A support technician leaves the company and the IT department wants to change the administrator password for all workstations joined to a Windows domain. 

Activity, although many do not believe it happens often, if in the organization we do not have a tool that allows us to perform this activity quickly and centrally, what option do I have? 

Well, there is an option that is quite fast, safe, and above all free of charge. Microsoft among its many tools owns one that belongs to the SysInternals group. The tool I want to mention is PSPasswd. 

This wonderful tool allows me to change the password of an account on the domain-joined workstation.  It even allows me to change the password on multiple computers using a text file. 

To download it you just have to go to the following URL: 

Sysinternals Suite – Windows Sysinternals | Microsoft Docs 

For example, to change the password on a single computer, we must run the following command: 

Pspasswd \\PC-001 administrator NewPassword -nobanner 

To change the password on multiple computers, we need to run the following command: 

Pspasswd \\PC-001, PC-002,PC-003 administrator NewPassword -nobanner 

And finally, we can change the password to a group of computers that are in a txt file, wherein each line of the file must be only the name of the computer. 

Pspasswd @computers.txt administrator NewPassword -nobanner 

For everything to work, we must meet the following requirements:

  1. The pc must be available on the network. You must be able to ping 
  2. You must run the command from a domain controller 
  3. The Domain Administrators group must be part of the local administrators of the computers. 

And that would be it. I look forward to this short article helping you in your day-to-day management tasks. 

 

Jhony Trujillo