Setting AD Password from GUI

[nikedia]

Hi All,

I am trying to create this application to amend a users password dependent on the value within a label. I have created a text box to hold the value which is generated from our system. Preferably I would like it to have one special character and 1 number to keep it secure but I am not sure how to make this simple, I have also hit a road block when it attempts to change the password, AD Powershell states that it is not able to make the text value a secure string. The code is:

Powershell GUI Script:

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web
$Assembly = [System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(8, 1)
$richtextbox1.text = $Assembly
$Generated.text = $Assembly
$password = $richtextbox1.Text | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
$users = $username.Text | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force

Set-ADAccountPassword $username.Text -NewPassword $richtextbox1.text -verbose -Reset -PassThru | Set-ADuser $users -ChangePasswordAtNextLogon $true
"Exported Log: $user, $Generated" | out-file output\Output.log -append

Powershell Output:

Set-ADAccountPassword : Cannot bind parameter 'NewPassword'. Cannot convert the "tBG.uvAV" value of type "System.String" to type "System.Security.SecureString".
At Export.ps1:17899 char:52
+ Set-ADAccountPassword $username.Text -NewPassword <<<< $richtextbox1.text -verbose -Reset -PassThru | Set-ADuser $users -ChangePasswordAtNextLogon $true
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (:) [Set-ADAccountPassword], ParameterBindingException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CannotConvertArgumentNoMessage,Microsoft.ActiveDirectory.Management.Commands.SetADAccountPassword

Many Thanks all, Craig

[jvierra]

We do not encrypt the username.

Your code does not make much sense. Why are you using "$richtextbox1" when you want a secure string. a Textbox cannot hold a secure string. It can only contain text.

[nikedia]

I attempted to just use a label but it didn't work so I tried a text box instead but it still failed

[jvierra]

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1. Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Web
2. $richtextbox1.text = [System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(8, 1)
3. $password = $richtextbox1.Text | ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force
4. Set-ADAccountPassword $username.Text -NewPassword $password -Reset
5. Set-ADuser $username.Text -ChangePasswordAtLogon $true
6. $msg = 'Exported Log:{}{}' -f $username.Text, $richtextbox1.text
7. Write-Host $msg
8. $msg | out-file output\Output.log -append