Windows Server 2019 – Desktop path for all users redirected to System32 SystemProfile Desktop Active Directory – How to track down why and where the user account was locked out How to change your own expired password when you can’t login to RDP. Remote Desktop allows you to access a remote computer using your Windows user name and password. The only criteria is that you must have permission to access the remote computer. Change the password for a Remote Desktop connection at any time by changing your log-on credentials for Windows. Use Remote Desktop to troubleshoot a remote computer. It is not available to change an expired user account password in a remote desktop session. We could try to configure the following gpo as a work around. Computer Configuration Policies Windows Settings Security Options Interactive logon: Prompt user to change password before expiration. Reset the Remote Desktop Services configuration This process will enable Remote Desktop service in the VM, and create a firewall rule for the default RDP port 3389. Select your Windows VM and then select Reset password under Support + Troubleshooting. The Reset password window is displayed.
Microsoft Remote Desktop Forgot Password
There’s an issue in Windows 10 which causes Microsoft Account passwords to become out of sync when using Remote Desktop (RDP). For example, I have a few computer systems running Windows 10 which I only access via Remote Desktop using my Microsoft Account (for example, username@outlook.com). If I were to change my Microsoft Account password from another computer system or Outlook.com, the new password will not work when connecting over RDP. However, the old password will continue to authenticate successfully. This is both annoying and a security issue. Morphing app for mac. Below is a method to force a password sync.
The easiest way to resolve this issue is to create a local administrator account (not a Microsoft account) and then use the local account to runas an application using your Microsoft account. If that sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is.
The instructions below assume a local (non-Microsoft) account is not currently accessible on the affected machine. A local account is required to resolve the issue.
- From the affected system, click Start or Cortana and type “Command Prompt“. From the list of results, right-click Command Prompt and select Run as administrator.
- Run the following commands replacing “[username]” and “[password]” with any username and password of your choice. The first command creates the user account while the second command adds the account to the local administrators group.
- Log off and log back into the system using the local account you just created.
- Click Start or Cortana and type “Command Prompt” and hit Enter. Run the following command (update username@outlook.com with your Microsoft Account email address). This will launch another command prompt as the user account and force an update to what I assume is some sort of password cache. Close both Command Prompt windows and sign out.
- You can remotely access the computer using your Microsoft account with the correct password. The old password will no longer work with RDP.
Windows Server 2016 RDP–You must change your password before logging on the first time
As I start to roll out Windows Server 2016 to replace Windows Server 2008 R2 RDP Servers, I’ve been encountering issues that just didn’t exist with Server 2008 R2. Today’s issue is that by default, if a new user account is created, or if the user’s password expires, or if an admin simply checks the Active Directory “User must change password at next login” property, when the user attempts to connect via RDP instead of getting a password change prompt they instead see this error:
Press Control+Option+Delete. Select Change a password from the menu and then fill out the form. Mac users must have RDC 2.0 or better for Mac OS X clients. Mac OS X RDC FAQ. Download (scroll to the bottom) staff.
Title: Remote Desktop Connection
You must change your password before logging on the first time. Please update your password or contact your system administrator or technical support.
This has the unusual effect of preventing the user from changing their password themselves, leaving the administrator with one of two undesirable options:
- Turn off the “User must change password at next login” property.
or - Change the password to some other password yourself, and also make sure that property is not set.
In either case, the implication is that some person other than that user now knows what that user’s password.
How to solve the issue – Change the RDP Security Layer
To solve the issue, you have to edit the Session Collection, Security, Configure Security settings and then change the Security Layer setting from Auto-Negotiate to RDP Security Layer.
Once that change has been applied, remote RDP users return to being able to set a new password.
Microsoft Remote Desktop Change Password Online
As an added bonus, this RDP Security Layer is actually more secure, and is also PCI Compliant (at least as of this writing anyway).