2024

How to reset a user password on AD without meeting complexity requirements

Open “Active Directory Users and Computers” tool

right click on your “domain” and then click “Properties”

Then click on “Attribute Editor” tab

Scroll down to “PWDPROPERTIES”, click to select the row and the click on “Edit” button

set the value to 0 and click “Apply”

now you can use non complex password to edit or create a new one.

After doing your needs, remember to reset the “PWDPROPERTIES” back to 1