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redditWindows credentials breaks domain account?
I faced an annoying problem with my Windows account in a corporate network (at my day job). IT security makes our passwords expires after 90 days, so you have to change your Windows account password. I change the password. Then it locks me out. I ask IT to reset the password, and it works. Then shortly thereafter, it locks me out again. It kept locking me out.
IT thought this might just be an issue of waiting for the password to sync. But I had another idea. My local Windows 7 machine is not on the domain, and it still had the old password cached, such as for credentials as seen in (Control Panel\User Accounts and Family Safety\Credential Manager). You can also get there from Run -> control userpasswords2 -> Advanced -> Manage Password.
Unfortunately, as far as I could tell, you can only delete them one at a time, and it’s really slow… It takes 3 clicks per removal, plus each time you remove one it scrolls you back up to the top of the window.
So many things are wrong with this entire situation. Everything involved is Microsoft Windows technology, yet it manages to horribly break itself. The error shouldn’t happen in the first place. But the bad UI makes it so much more painful.
Here’s one post that at least attempts to help troubleshoot the issue:
-> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc773155%28WS.10%29.aspx
Pem (Admin) :: May.27.2010 :: Windows OS :: No Comments »
