Your City of Austin Network Username and Password is used to access email, Windows computers, and more. For security purposes, it expires on a regular basis. There are a few ways to reset it.
You may get a prompt while using your computer to alert you that your password is about to expire. Click the message to go to the change password page.
You can also change your password at any time as long as you're logged in to your computer.
Click "Ctrl - Alt - Delete" and a window will pop up. Click "Change a password"
2. Fill out the next screen:
Enter ID password
Enter new password
Confirm new password
Password changed
Changing your password remotely
Connected to Citrix to your desktop from a personal PC
Hit control-alt-end to send the control-alt-delete command to your remote pc
Change the password.
Connected by NetMotion on device
After changing the password
Lock the laptop by hitting control-alt-delete then click Lock.
After locking, unlock with your new password. (That should force the replication of the password to NetMotion)
Connected by NetMotion and remote into your desktop
Log off your remote desktop first
Change the password on your laptop
Once changed, remote into your desktop and login with your new password.
NOTE: If you don’t change your password in the order mentioned above for that specific, NetMotion setup; you could Lock yourself out from the remote laptop.
If this occurs, you will have to bring your laptop into work and physically put on the network to recache your new password.
Password has already expired?
Please contact the CTM Helpdesk or Scott Reedy to reset if not prompted to change at login.
Get Help from CTM
If you've been locked out of your computer, call the CTM help desk at 512-974-4357 and they willprovide you with a temporary password. You will be prompted to supply a new password when you log in.
NOTE: If you have NetMotion and your password expired, tell the CTM Helpdesk your password will have to be set to what it was when it expired in order to still be able to login to your local laptop.
Please tell the helpdesk that the “change at first login” flag cannot be set when resetting the password for those of you on NetMotion. You will get caught in a loop at login.