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Windows User Guide Password Changes with SSO Enabled

Appendix A. Password Changes with SSO

Enabled

Overview

If SSO is enabled, follow the instructions in this Appendix to achieve a change in your password.

Procedure for Expired Password

Your administrator may have set a policy that requires you to change your password after a set period of time. For example, you may be forced to change your password every three months.

Windows will prompt you to change your password each time you log on. Before proceeding to change your password, power the machine off and then back on. Complete pre-boot authentication. Then go ahead and change your password as prompted.

Procedure for Compromised Password

You may want to change your password even though you aren’t required to. You may believe that your password has been compromised, for example.

To change your password, complete the following steps:

1. Go to the machine that you registered on.

2. Power the machine on.

3. Complete pre-boot authentication.

4. Once Windows has loaded, press CTRL+ALT+DEL.

5. Click Change Password or Change a Password, as per your version of Windows.

6. Provide your old password and your new password.

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