I have an Office 365 account where I am admin. I used that same account to create an Azure space or account, where I "believe" or "should" be admin as well. In both cases, I am the only user. Both work fine and I can log into both with same user name and password. I created an RDP connection to a VM that I create in Azure. The only user name and password that I would know of to use is the same one that I log into Azure with, but it never works. Seems to be connecting but just rejecting credentials. What username should I use? I can't use one that I create on the VM because I can't get on there yet.
When you create a VM you need to give it admin username and password. And you would use those to login, so check what you did input and use that.
You can reset the existing user password or create the new user/password from the 'Reset Password' option from the Azure Portal as well.
I needed to use the name of the domain of the VM in front of my username to get in.
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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
My domain account is locked out and I can't get access to any VM, including our domain controller. I still have full access to our portal. Is there any way that I can reset my domain account password via the Azure portal?
I was able to unlock my account using the following powershell command
Unlock-ADAccount -Identity username
(Where 'username' is the user name of the AD account.)
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
When I click on connect button in Azure Portal, the RDP file is opened and it asks for credential,. not sure what credentials to give. Is it my login to azure portal or something else?
The RDP login prompt shows "MicrsoftAccount\PortalLoginUserName" as user name.What should be typed in password? Is it the portal password? If i try that it does not work.
When creating VM i have provided new username and new password is that what i need to use? if this what i need to use what would be domain?
You need to use the username and password you used when provisioning the VM. These credentials are not the same as your Azure account credentials. And every VM may have its own unique credentials.
When entering your username in the RDP client, either enter \username or localhost\username.
I had to change the admin password as it had expired via RDP. The server was working fine after the change.
Later I disconnected the session, and started it again, now we are getting the following error message:
An authentication error has occurred.
The Local Security Authority cannot be contacted
Remote computer: **.cloudapp.net
This same error keeps coming up even after 2 server restarts. The password is defiantly correct as typing a different password gives a "Password Incorrect" error.
There is no other way for us to access this server.
I found the answer here.
Your machine should still have a local administrator account (e.g. MachineName\Administrator), in which case you can login with the administrator account. In the RDP login prompt, you'll need to put the full user account (e.g., "MachineName\Administrator" where MachineName is your computer's name, otherwise it will default to "PreviousDomainUsed\Administrator").
This happened to me with an Azure VM because the domain administrator account I was using had an expired password and the Azure VMs enforce Network Level Authentication, which prevents you from changing the password through RDP. I was able to update the password by logging into the domain controller's VM, but the VM I couldn't log into didn't receive the update because the DNS settings were incorrect. I RDP'd into the faulty VM with the local administrator account, updated the DNS settings and ran "gpupdate" in a Powershell command prompt and everything began working again.
Hope this helps.
I had same issue with local admin account and specifying user account as "machine name\Administrator" still did not work. There was only local admin account in Azure VM so I needed to solve this issue for local admin account.
I could reset password for local admin account by following step then now I can log in to Azure VM by local admin account.
Open Azure Portal web site.
Click "Virtual Machine" then click virtual machine name which issue having in the list.
Dash board for selected virtual machine is shown. Then click "Reset Password".
Following screen is displayed so specify local admin account name nand password, then click Update.
This uses the VMAccess extension to reset the built-in administrator account and reset the Remote Desktop service configuration. Learn more
Mode
You can perform a password reset, which will also reset the Remote Desktop service configuration, or choose to reset the configuration only.
Reset password
User name:
If you provide a different user name, then the built-in administrator account with be renamed. Also, the account will be enabled if it's currently disabled. (The name of local admin account is shown as default)
Password
Confirm password
here is an answer if you need it yet.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/18710.troubleshoot-azure-vm-by-attaching-os-disk-to-another-azure-vm.aspx