{"id":38891,"date":"2023-09-08T13:28:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T11:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/?p=38891"},"modified":"2025-03-11T09:02:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:02:40","slug":"change-windows-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/products-and-services\/self-managed-servers\/change-windows-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to change the Windows password on first login"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Applicable to:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Windows server 2019 \/ 2022 \/ 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Windows will ask you to change your initial Administrator password the first time you log in. This is for server security reasons. Please use strong passwords, following <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/security\/kerberos\/passwords-technical-overview#strong-passwords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft&#8217;s best practice<\/a> recommendations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"<b>Applicable to:<\/b>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li  aria-level=\"1\"><span >Windows server 2019 \/ 2022 \/ 2025<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<span >Windows will ask you to change your initial Administrator password the first time you log in. This is for server security reasons. Please use strong passwords, following <a href=\"https:\/\/learn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/security\/kerberos\/passwords-technical-overview#strong-passwords\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft's best practice<\/a> recommendations.\u00a0<\/span>"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows will ask you to change your initial Administrator password the first time you log in. 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