For a developer or IT admin working in Windows Server 2008 environment, you may have noticed ctrl+alt+del does not work over remote connection and you can no longer change your password from control panel.

The best solution to this in my opinion, that will likely work far into the future, is the command line.

Also keep in mind you are a server admin and disable much functionality for your remote users, sometimes these permissions don’t always apply to command line variants and the latter can be used for privilege escalation in the event of a workstation or user profile compromise.

net user user_name * /domain

net user user_name  new_password

ex.
net user Bob 12bdir5$

References
Microsoft Support, “How to Change User Password at Command Prompt”,