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The PowerShell cmdlets you'll want to use are:<ul><li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/scheduledtasks/stop-scheduledtask?view=windowsserver2019-ps" rel="ugc">Stop-ScheduledTask</a></li><li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/scheduledtasks/set-scheduledtask?view=windowsserver2019-ps" rel="ugc">Set-ScheduledTask</a></li><li><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/scheduledtasks/start-scheduledtask?view=windowsserver2019-ps" rel="ugc">Start-ScheduledTask</a></li></ul><br>The alternative would be to use <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/schtasks" rel="ugc">schtasks</a>
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The PowerShell cmdlets you'll want to use are:
 * Stop-ScheduledTask [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/scheduledtasks/stop-scheduledtask?view=windowsserver2019-ps]
 * Set-ScheduledTask [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/scheduledtasks/set-scheduledtask?view=windowsserver2019-ps]
 * Start-ScheduledTask [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/scheduledtasks/start-scheduledtask?view=windowsserver2019-ps]


The alternative would be to use schtasks [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/schtasks]

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Reset the pw to the old value. Admins may do that.
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Reset the pw to the old value. Admins may do that.

Managing Consultant

Michael B. Smith

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What @McKnife said. You didn't have to reset the password. All you had to do was change the account settings to "Password never expires."
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What @McKnife said. You didn't have to reset the password. All you had to do was change the account settings to "Password never expires."

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Thanks Kevin and McKnife,<br><br>Can you please send me the code to loop that for all dcs in the forest?
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Thanks Kevin and McKnife,

Can you please send me the code to loop that for all dcs in the forest?

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Code? Just reset the password to what it was in AD manually - one change.
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Code? Just reset the password to what it was in AD manually - one change.

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because password complexity requirements, i can't reset password to use same old password<br><br>The reason I submitted this question is to get help with the Powershell code for all DCs, those cmdlets are easy to find in Google
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because password complexity requirements, i can't reset password to use same old password

The reason I submitted this question is to get help with the Powershell code for all DCs, those cmdlets are easy to find in Google

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<pre><code id="code-20-43274053-1">Set-ScheduledTask -taskname yourtask -user yourdom\serviceaccountsname -password &quot;newpassword&quot;</code></pre>
Now how to execute that? I would save this codeline as \\server\share\yourscript.<wbr />ps1 and deploy it as an immediate scheduled task itself.<br />
Executing account: system<br />
Action: powershell \\server\share\yourscript.<wbr />ps1
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Set-ScheduledTask -taskname yourtask -user yourdom\serviceaccountsname -password "newpassword"

Now how to execute that? I would save this codeline as \\server\share\yourscript.ps1 and deploy it as an immediate scheduled task itself.
Executing account: system
Action: powershell \\server\share\yourscript.ps1

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<pre><code class="code-1 nolinks" id="code-20-43274105-1">Get-AdDomainController | Select Name</code></pre>
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If you think the suggestion does not fit, you are mistaken. Using a task is better than using remote Powershell since the latter requires to open ports (&quot;a push&quot;), while the task I suggest does not (&quot;a pull&quot;).
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If you think the suggestion does not fit, you are mistaken. Using a task is better than using remote Powershell since the latter requires to open ports ("a push"), while the task I suggest does not ("a pull").

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I provided you a PowerShell snippet for getting all DC names. And @McKnife's answer is perfectly reasonable.
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I provided you a PowerShell snippet for getting all DC names. And @McKnife's answer is perfectly reasonable.

Systems Engineer

Jerry Seinfield

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Still, this would need open ports at the DCs in order to work, so for security reasons, the task based solution should be preferred.
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Still, this would need open ports at the DCs in order to work, so for security reasons, the task based solution should be preferred.

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I would agree with you @McKnife in my opinion the Task based solution is the better of the solutions here. Regardless, All your I are dotted and T's are crossed with the solutions provided. <br />
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*** Note please do not award points for this response.
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I would agree with you @McKnife in my opinion the Task based solution is the better of the solutions here. Regardless, All your I are dotted and T's are crossed with the solutions provided.


*** Note please do not award points for this response.

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Jerry and others, possibly you will be interested in my article in which I shed light on the security risks of Powershell Remoting (and go into detail about the task alternative):<br />
&nbsp;<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/35931/About-the-risks-of-executing-commands-remotely.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/35931/About-the-risks-of-executing-commands-remotely.html</a>
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Jerry and others, possibly you will be interested in my article in which I shed light on the security risks of Powershell Remoting (and go into detail about the task alternative):
 https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/35931/About-the-risks-of-executing-commands-remotely.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/articles/35931/About-the-risks-of-executing-commands-remotely.html]

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Hello Experts,<br><br>I have an scheduled task that runs daily on every single domain controller under a service account that by mistake their password expired. <br><br>We have enabled the condition that password never expires for this service account, and since we had to reset the password, we must now perform &nbsp;following tasks:<br><br>1. Stop the automated task called MonitoringX on each DC<br>2. Update the scheduled task with the new password.per DC<br>3. Start the automated task<br><br><br>Can someone please provide me with a PS to perform all of these tasks for all domain controllers on my forest?<br><br>Thank you in advance
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Hello Experts,
I have an scheduled task that runs daily on every single domain controller under a service account that by mistake their password expired.
We have enabled the condition that password never expires for this service account, and since we had to reset the password, we must now perform  following tasks:
1. Stop the automated task called MonitoringX on each DC
2. Update the scheduled task with the new password.per DC
3. Start the automated task
Can someone please provide me with a PS to perform all of these tasks for all domain controllers on my forest?
Thank you in advance

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