If you’re a computer user and have an account in Active Directory, you can reset it to its original settings. To do this, follow these steps:
- Log on to your account in Active Directory.
- In the left pane of the Accounts screen, click the Reset button.
- Enter your password and click Reset.
- The computer will restart and ask you for your account’s password again. Enter it and click Reset again.
A reset computer account is a computer account that has been deleted and then recreated. This can happen if the computer is removed from the domain and then rejoined, or if the computer’s password is changed.
Reset computer account in Active Directory is used to remove the authenticated state of a computer object from Active Directory, this may be necessary after performing an operating system rebuild or if a group policy has been applied that does not allow the change to succeed.
What are the steps for resetting a computer account in Active Directory?
The following are the commands and examples which you can perform with these commands:
At elevated command prompt type: Netdom computername <server/computer> /reset /yes /user <DOMAIN\user> When prompted for credentials enter them The new password on the domain must be provided using “*” as password This will reset authentication settings to * Resetting computer name: ADMINISTR.
