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    I'm in the process of changing our domain local administrator account on about 500 machines and would like to log either the success or failure of each machine. In short, I'm having a great deal of difficulty...

    $computers = Get-Content -Path "C:\Temp\Password.txt"
$useracct = "Administrator"
$password = "MyNewPassword"

foreach ($computer in $computers)
{
    Write-Host "Setting $useracct's password on $computer"
    $user = [adsi]"WinNT://$computer/$useracct,user"
    $user.SetPassword($password)
    $user.SetInfo()
    Write-Host "Password set on $computer"
}

    HELP!!!

    DHeinz

    Friday, December 7, 2018 10:10 PM

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    I don't see where you are logging anything.  You need to output something and probably output to a file.

    \_(ツ)_/

    Friday, December 7, 2018 10:40 PM
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    all you have to do is to use Export command:

    $computers = Get-Content -Path "C:\Temp\Password.txt"
$useracct = "Administrator"
$password = "MyNewPassword"

foreach ($computer in $computers)
{
    Write-Host "Setting $useracct's password on $computer"
    $user = [adsi]"WinNT://$computer/$useracct,user"
    $user.SetPassword($password)
    $user.SetInfo()
    Write-Host "Password set on $computer"
        Export-Csv -Path C:\userspasswords.csv -Append -InputObject $user
}

    Saturday, December 8, 2018 6:01 AM
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    Tuesday, December 11, 2018 6:17 AM
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    Monday, December 24, 2018 5:46 AM
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    Wednesday, May 1, 2019 9:12 AM
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    A bit of criticism.  The post is very old and was obviously abandoned.  The answer proposed clearly fail to answer the question asked.

    The user asks to log "successes" and "failures". The proposals will only output the string conversion of an ADSI computer object. I do not think these counts as an answer.

    Any error will cause an indeterminate number of exceptions with no logging.

    "SetPassword" never requires the use of "SetInfo".  It is a complete method.  Only property assignments require "SetInfo".

    \_(ツ)_/

    Wednesday, May 1, 2019 9:28 AM