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Reset multiple AD accounts in an OU with different passwords?

Dear Experts

It is possible to reset the passwords of multiple AD accounts in a particular with a different password for each user? I can supply a password list in a CSV file or is there a way to have the system generate random passwords for each account and put those in a CSV. Appreciate any advice.

Hello There

You can use Powershell.

An example here:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/370755-reset-passwords-using-a-utility-for-ad
CSV:

Username,Password
"User1","Password1"
"User2","Password2"

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PowerShell script:

$UserPwds = Import-CSV C:\path\to\CSV\Users.CSV
ForEach($User in $UserPwds)
{
   Set-adaccountpassword $User.UserName -reset -newpassword (Convertto-Securestring -asplaintext $($User.Password) -force)
}

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McKnife

If you have a text file (d:\usernames.txt) with
--
user1
user2
...
--
then this one-liner Batch will do and create an outputfile with all randomly generated passwords

for /f %a in (d:\usernames.txt) do net user %a /random /domain>>d:\out.txt

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