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I am currently got an unusual problem as I have created a security group to reset passwords for a help desk group. I have found however that certain accounts cant have there passwords reset and this is due to the fact that the users account security setting doesnt have inheritance on. This is strange as I have created a lot of them and why this has switched off puzzles me. Also now that I have identified that this is the case how can I automate a task to go round all the accounts and switch inheritance on?
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I am currently got an unusual problem as I have created a security group to reset passwords for a help desk group. I have found however that certain accounts cant have there passwords reset and this is due to the fact that the users account security setting doesnt have inheritance on. This is strange as I have created a lot of them and why this has switched off puzzles me. Also now that I have identified that this is the case how can I automate a task to go round all the accounts and switch inheritance on?

security inheritance for user objects within active directory

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