Microsoft Remote Desktop Change Password

Just login in as the new username and password on the main login in screen. It will prompt you to change your password. Don’t try to remote in because it wont give you an option to change your password. Hit the windows icon, search for your name, log out. Sign in as the user you want password changed. A remote password change option is available on the server with the Remote Desktop Web Access (RD Web Access) role, but it is disabled by default. To change a password, a script password.aspx is used, which is located in C: Windows Web RDWeb Pages en-US. Enable or Disable Always Prompt for Password upon Remote Desktop Connection to Windows PC You can use the Remote Desktop Connection (mstsc.exe) or Microsoft Remote Desktop app to connect to and control your Windows PC from a remote device. When you allow remote desktop connections to your PC, you can use another device to connect to your PC. Start mstsc.exe. Click Show Options. Call it ChangePassword.rpd (or anything you’d like, but avoid the name Default.rdp) Open the saved ChangePassword.rpd in Notepad. Add a new row at the end with the following text: enablecredsspsupport:i:0. Save the rdp file. Double-click the rdp file.

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If you can't connect to a Windows virtual machine (VM), you can reset your local administrator password or reset the Remote Desktop Services configuration (not supported on Windows domain controllers). To reset the password, use either the Azure portal or the VM Access extension in Azure PowerShell. After you've signed in to the VM, reset the password for that local administrator.
If you're using PowerShell, make sure that you have the latest PowerShell module installed and configured and are signed in to your Azure subscription. You can also perform these steps for VMs created with the classic deployment model.

You can reset Remote Desktop Services and credentials in the following ways:

Fixes an issue in which you cannot change an expired password if you use a user account to establish a remote desktop session to a Windows Server 2008 R2-based RD Session Host server from a client computer. This issue occurs in a VDI environment.

Reset by using the Azure portal

First, sign in to the Azure portal and then select Virtual machines on the left menu.

Reset the local administrator account password

  1. Select your Windows VM and then select Reset password under Support + Troubleshooting. The Reset password window is displayed.

  2. Select Reset password, enter a username and a password, and then select Update.

  3. Try connecting to your VM again.

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.

  1. Select your Windows VM and then select Reset password under Support + Troubleshooting. The Reset password window is displayed.

  2. Select Reset configuration only and then select Update.

  3. Try connecting to your VM again.

Reset by using the VMAccess extension and PowerShell

First, make sure that you have the latest PowerShell module installed and configured and are signed in to your Azure subscription by using the Connect-AzAccount cmdlet.

Reset the local administrator account password

  • Reset the administrator password or user name with the Set-AzVMAccessExtension PowerShell cmdlet. The typeHandlerVersion setting must be 2.0 or greater, because version 1 is deprecated.

    Note

    If you enter a different name than the current local administrator account on your VM, the VMAccess extension will add a local administrator account with that name, and assign your specified password to that account. If the local administrator account on your VM exists, the VMAccess extension will reset the password. If the account is disabled, the VMAccess extension will enable it.

Reset the Remote Desktop Services configuration

  1. Reset remote access to your VM with the Set-AzVMAccessExtension PowerShell cmdlet. The following example resets the access extension named myVMAccess on the VM named myVM in the myResourceGroup resource group: Adobe premiere lower thirds youtube.

    Tip

    At any point, a VM can have only a single VM access agent. To set the VM access agent properties, use the -ForceRerun option. When you use -ForceRerun, ensure you use the same name for the VM access agent that you might have used in any previous commands.

  2. If you still can't connect remotely to your virtual machine, see Troubleshoot Remote Desktop connections to a Windows-based Azure virtual machine. If you lose the connection to the Windows domain controller, you will need to restore it from a domain controller backup.

Next steps

  • If the Azure VM access extension fails to install you can troubleshoot VM extension issues.

  • If you're unable to reset the password using the VM access extension then you can reset the local Windows password offline. This method is more advanced and requires you to connect the virtual hard disk of the problematic VM to another VM. Follow the steps documented in this article first, and attempt the offline password reset method only if those steps don't work.

  • Learn about Azure VM extensions and features.

  • Connect to an Azure virtual machine with RDP or SSH.

  • Troubleshoot Remote Desktop connections to a Windows-based Azure virtual machine.

Windows Server 2016 RDP–You must change your password before logging on the first time

Windows Remote Desktop Change Password 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:

Title: Remote Desktop Connection

Spider-man 2002 game. You must change your password before logging on the first time. Please update your password or contact your system administrator or technical support.

Microsoft Remote Desktop Change Password

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.

Microsoft remote desktop change password online

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.

Microsoft Remote Desktop Change Password Page

Once that change has been applied, remote RDP users return to being able to set a new password.

Microsoft Remote Desktop Change Password Tool

As an added bonus, this RDP Security Layer is actually more secure, and is also PCI Compliant (at least as of this writing anyway).