Can I change my own password in Active Directory using Powershell

Question

I am trying to change password for my own account in AD using powershell. My account is just a regular account (no domain admin rights)

I tried net user, dsquery and powershell cmdlets, but all of them errors out "Access is denied". I think all of those requires admin rights.

Is there a way to change my own password using powershell or cmd ?

Why I am doing that? We have 8 different AD domains and I have an account in each. With different password expiration policies it is very difficult to remember all the passwords. So I want to do a script that connects to each domain with my user account in that domain and changes the password. I'll repeat that for all the domains.

Solution

If you have the Active Directory PowerShell Module installed, this is a pretty easy task using Set-ADAccountPassword.

You can use the -Server parameter to supply a different Domain Controller name from each Domain to set the password on that Domain.

$DomainControllers = "Domain1DC","Domain2DC","Domain3DC"
$MyName = "MyUserName"
ForEach ($DomainController In $DomainControllers) {
    Set-AdAccountPassword -Identity $MyName -Server $DomainController
}

Set-ADUserAccountPassword used this way will prompt you for the old password then the new password for each domain controller.

Comments

[CitizenRon]

It shouldn't. Since it will prompt for the current password of the user account, that should be all the rights it needs to perform the password change.

[Tilo]

simple one by one: Set-AdAccountPassword -Identity AnyDomainUserId no need to run powershell by the user you want to change Also quick info how to import PS of AD: import-module activedirectory