Use the Users Properties advanced task to modify the properties of multiple local users.
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Open the Group and User Management module. |
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Open the Tasks tab. |
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Click Users Properties. |
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Click Add, and select the users to modify. |
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Click View. The Properties window displays the shared properties. |
NOTE: To open Properties from the Browse tab, select Domain Users in the Navigation pane, select one or more users in the Objects pane, and select Tools | Properties.
Click on the Tool Bar; or right-click a selection of one or more users in the Objects pane, and choose Properties. |
If you select two or more groups, you can add or remove a user from multiple groups at one time.
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Open the Group and User Management module. |
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Open the Tasks tab. |
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Click Groups Content. |
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Click Add, and select one or more groups. |
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NOTE: To open the Group Contents window from the Browse tab, select a type of group in the Navigation pane, select one or more groups in the Objects pane, and select Tools | Display Group Contents.
Right-click a single group or a selection of groups in the Objects pane, and choose Display Group Contents. You also can access Group Contents by clicking Contents on the Control Button Bar in the NTFS Security, Share Security, Registry Security, Printer Security, and Service Security modules. See Managing group memberships. To access Group Contents from Properties, click Contents on the Property window. See Modifying group and user properties. |
Show the groups of which the selected group or user is a member. | |
Close the Group contents box. |
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Open the Group and User Management module. |
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Open the Tasks tab. |
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Click User/Group Membership. |
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Type an account name, or click Advanced selection, and select an account. |
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Click View. The Group Memberships window displays the groups to which the selected account belongs. You can print the list or save it as a .txt file. |
NOTE: To access the Group Memberships window from the Browse tab, select a type of group or user in the Navigation pane, select a group or user in the Objects pane, and select Tools | Display Memberships.
Right-click a group or user in the Objects pane, and choose Display Memberships. |
NOTE: You also can search for services by account and change the logon password for the account. See Changing the password for a logon account.
TIP: To help you easily change the passwords of local administrator accounts, use the Search module. On the Group/User Search Criteria tab, select Search for local administrator accounts, and run the search. Right-click the results and choose Change Passwords. See Group and user search criteria. |
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Open the Group and User Management module. |
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Open the Tasks tab. |
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Click Change Password. |
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Click Add, and select one or more users. |
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NOTE: To access the Set Password box from the Browse tab, right-click one or more user accounts in the Objects pane, and choose Change Password.
Click Change Password from the Properties box of a user. See Modifying group and user properties. |
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Type a new password, or click Generate to generate a random password. |
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To create a log file listing each account with its new password, select Log the change password result. The account names and passwords are saved to ChangedPasswordsResults.log, which you can find in the Security Explorer installation folder. Be aware that this file is overwritten each time you change passwords. |
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Click OK. |
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Click Yes. |
TIP: To help you see which passwords were not reset, check the Password last change date column in the Object and Search Results panes.
TIP: To quickly repeat the operation on failures, save failed targets to a new scope by clicking Save Failed Computers To Scope on the Search tab. See Adding a search scope and Group and user search criteria. |
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