How can I configure Self service password reset for AD users(not Azure Active Directory) in Azure? So that when the password expires the user can themselves reset the password instead of asking the administrator/admin to go to portal and reset their password.
Unfortunately at my company, we are facing the same dilemma our users thankfully have domain-joined laptops and just connect to VPN and change their passwords that way (not that's any use for you). You can check out a couple of open-sourced projects for hosting a website that users can go to and reset their password. You can also get a higher-tier subscription and allow them to reset their password via O365 as well.
https://github.com/mprahl/ADReset
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My scenario is a public website, with authenticated access that is managed by AzureAdB2C, and the authentication is not embedded but on a subdomain style. In the authentication form I see that there's the option for password reset (for someone who forgets it) but my question is when the user is already authenticated and so outside Azure context, how can he ask for a password change?
Is there any endpoint or so (that would receive the email linked to the account)?
Thank you
Still not clear because you mention "fire the change/reset password flow?". Which is it or is it both?
If reset, you can use a custom policy. Just put the link to the policy on your page.
There are a number of password reset flows that may be of interest.
For change password, see here. Again, just put the policy link on the page.
Unsure if you would have to login again.
You can Configure password change using custom policies in Azure Active Directory B2C.
In Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C), you can enable users who are signed in with a local account to change their password without having to prove their identity through email verification. The password change flow involves following steps:
The user signs in to their local account. If the session is still active, Azure AD B2C authorizes the user and skips to the next step.
The user verifies the Old password, and then creates and confirms the New password.
If the question is to reset the password because the user forgot it but is still logged in, I can imagine logging out the user and redirecting them to the login page where they can choose the reset password option.
EDIT:
The Azure AD B2C article Set up self-service password reset for your customers states that
This article applies to self-service password reset used in the context of the standard Sign in user flow, which uses Local Account SignIn as the identity provider. If you need fully customizable password reset user flows invoked from your app, see this article.
Somehow resetting your password with a password reset flow / custom policy while you're logged in and don't 'need' your current password feels weird.
I am using free Azure AD and when a user tries to "Change password" in the Azure portal, it says:
"you can’t change your password here. Your organization doesn’t allow you to change your password on this site. Please change your password according to the method recommended by your organization, or ask your admin if you need help."
All I can find online is that a change was made and now this feature requires Password Writeback (a premium feature) to work however it is advertised as being available with free Azure AD https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/active-directory/ (Self-Service Password Change for cloud users).
Am I missing something here? Is there a possible workaround, or is this feature really not available to Azure AD/AD Connect environments without premium? Again, I am only looking to have users change passwords not reset them.
Password change (not reset) is available in Free edition of Azure AD.
This link has few of the the scenarios listed:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/authentication/concept-sspr-licensing
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/user-help/active-directory-passwords-update-your-own-password#change-my-password
as requested by the Azure support team we are raising this issue.
The issue we face is that resetting the user password doesn’t work for Azure B2C.
We followed the steps as outlined here: http://aka.ms/d_LzkR2Yfz
We do get a temporary password for the user, but when trying to login the system responds with an “Invalid username or password.“.
There is a known issue that is related to administrators resetting passwords for local account users via the Azure Portal.
It is recommended that administrators reset passwords for local account users using the Azure AD Graph API.
and why that indusians don't fix that portal issue so long time...
after more then three weeks of search, try and error I tumble back here for help.
I have successfully connected the on premise AD with the Cloud Azure AD and passwort sync seems to work as well. But at last there is still a problem present I just can't locate and/or fix. If a synced User trys to reset his password on the portal.office.com website (which should be forced after 90 days) he is forbidden to do so.
Now to my question: Is it true, that the only possible way to reset synced users password is for the admin manually reset the password in the locale AD?
Thank you very much.
Best regards
Sala
It is possible to reset synced passwords by users. It requires Azure AD Premium for appropriate users and several additional setup steps including Password Writeback feature enabled. See "Enable users to reset or change their AD Passwords" topic in this post.
We are using Azure AD Connect to sync users and passwords between on premise Active Directory and our Azure AD tenant for Office 365. This seems to work well except for when a Admin resets a password either in Office 365 or in AD. when this happens the password reset is never synced. this causes a problem where if and office 365 admin resets a password and requires the user to change it on next login, the user is never able to change their password because their azure ad password and local ad password are now out of sync and AD Connect will fail. The same happens when an admin reset a password in active directory. The password reset never makes it to Azure. Is this something that should work and we have it configured wrong? or does AD Connect no support admin resets of password?
If Office 365 Admin, reset the password, it changed in cloud, but if Azure AD Connect sync is enabled then password in on-premise AD will override the password to the cloud (for every 2 minutes), so the password which is updated in the Cloud is overridden by the On-premise password, then User will unable to sign in. To fix this Microsoft has introduced password writeback feature in the Azure AD Connect, which enable password sync from azure AD to on-premise AD. This feature cannot support before version of Azure AD Connect version 1.0.8641.0. Password can be reset via azure admin portal, but this functionality currently not supported in office admin portal. This will give you a key idea.
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