How To Change User Password With PowerShell

Overview

I am going to show a couple of very easy ways to change or reset a user's local or domain account password using PowerShell.  You do not need any PowerShell modules.  Just built in PowerShell will be used to change the password.

Why do anything with PowerShell when you can already use CMD?

An important concept to grasp is the ability to reuse code and process multiple items.

“I can already use the NET USER command from CMD.  Why use PowerShell?”

We want to use PowerShell for 3 reasons:

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