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    <p>On a Vista dev machine I used this code successfully to change user "Administrator" password:</p> <pre><code>directoryEntry.Invoke("SetPassword", "new"); </code></pre> <p>When I moved it over to my Server 2008 dev machine that code did not work, and I was forced to use the following code:</p> <pre><code>directoryEntry.Invoke("ChangePassword", new object[] { "old", "new" }); </code></pre> <p>My question is, why?</p> <p>For both cases, I created my DirectoryEntry object as such:</p> <pre><code>DirectoryEntry directoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry(string.Format("WinNT://{0}/{1}", computerName, username)); </code></pre> <p>Thanks! 8)</p> <p>In case you guys find it helpful, heres the actual code.</p> <pre><code>using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Diagnostics; using System.DirectoryServices; using System.Security.Principal; namespace AccountMod { class Program { static void Main() { Console.WriteLine("Attempting reset...\n"); try { String machineNameAndUser = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name.ToString(); String machineName = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name.ToString().Substring(0, machineNameAndUser.IndexOf('\\')); Console.WriteLine("Computer's name: " + machineName); ResetPassword(machineName, "Administrator", "new"); //ChangePassword("Administrator", "current", "new"); Console.WriteLine("Finished..."); } catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine(e.Message); Console.WriteLine(e.StackTrace); Console.WriteLine(e.InnerException); } Console.ReadKey(); } public static void ResetPassword(string computerName, string username, string newPassword) { DirectoryEntry directoryEntry = new DirectoryEntry(string.Format("WinNT://{0}/{1}", computerName, username)); directoryEntry.Invoke("SetPassword", newPassword); //directoryEntry.Invoke("ChangePassword", new object[] { "current", "new" }); } } } </code></pre>
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    2. COOh, and if there was an exception, could you please post the entire exception? That is, post the complete output of ex.ToString().
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    3. CONo exceptions. :(
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