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Answered Powershell help needed - password not being set

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      Monday, September 08, 2008 2:36 PM
       
       
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      Hi. I have no doubt done something stupid, but if anyone could be so kind as to point out exactly what...

       

      I am trying to create new users and mailboxes from a csv file. Users and mailboxes are created and they are enabled. There are no error messages. However when I try to login as one of them through OWA I get "username or password incorrect". If I manually reset the password to what I expected it to be, I can then login.

       

      Here's my script:

       

      cat add_users.csv > add_users2.csv # make utf8

      import-csv add_users2.csv | foreach {

      $secureString = ConvertTo-SecureString -string $_.password -AsPlainText –Force

      New-Mailbox -Name $_.displayName -displayName $_.displayName -Alias $_.alias -OrganizationalUnit $_.OU -UserPrincipalName $_.UPN -SamAccountName $_.UID -FirstName $_.givenName -Initials '' -LastName $_.surname -Database $_.MDB -password $secureString -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $true

      } | out-file -filepath "c:\scripts\add_users.txt" -encoding "UNICODE"

       

      TIA,

       

      Carol

       


       

       

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    • Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:01 AM
       
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      I have solved it myself. It was because of the -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $true. Apparently I have to have -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $false.

       

      I was under the impression that OWA was capable of prompting a user to change their password. Guess not.

       

      Carol

       

       

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    • Monday, September 08, 2008 6:03 PM
       
       
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      Carol,

       

      Try this as the $secureString

       

      $secureString = ConvertTo-SecureString $_.password -asPlainText -force

       

      Regards,

       

      Johan

       

      visit my site: www.johanveldhuis.nl

       

       

       
    • Tuesday, September 09, 2008 6:41 AM
       
       
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      Actually I had already tried that - I only added the "-string" after reading through the get-help. The password is not set either way.

       

      Carol

       

       

       
    • Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:00 AM
       
       
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      I've solved it myself. It was because of the -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $true. If I set it to -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $false then the accounts can be used.

       

      How incredibly stupid. Surely the user should be able to login the first time? I guess I will have to force the password change later.

       

      Carol

       

       

       
    • Tuesday, September 09, 2008 7:01 AM
       
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      I have solved it myself. It was because of the -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $true. Apparently I have to have -ResetPasswordOnNextLogon $false.

       

      I was under the impression that OWA was capable of prompting a user to change their password. Guess not.

       

      Carol