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0x80070773: ERROR_PASSWORD_MUST_CHANGE (Win32 1907)

Windows Error Code Lookup: Decode Windows error codes: Win32, HRESULT (0x80070005), NTSTATUS, Windows Update, msiexec and blue-screen stop codes, with what to check next.

Paste the number from an error dialog, event log, script or setup log: 0x80070005, 80070005, -2147024891, 1603, 0xC0000005, a stop code like 0x7E, a name like E_ACCESSDENIED, or a few words. You get every way Windows could mean that number (an HRESULT often wraps a Win32 error, so 0x80070005 is "Access is denied" too), its parts decoded, and what to check for the common ones. Names and messages come from the Windows SDK headers and Windows' own message tables; see Microsoft's System Error Codes and [MS-ERREF] for the full references.

Try: 0x80070005, 1603, 0xC0000005, 0x800F081F, 0x8024402C, 0x7E, access denied

0x80070773 = 2,147,944,307 = -2147022989

HRESULT 0x80070773

No name of its own: it's the Win32 error below, as an HRESULT.

The user has to set a new password before signing in ("User must change password at next logon", or it expired). Over RDP with NLA this blocks sign-in; change it from another session first.

Wraps the Win32 error: 1907ERROR_PASSWORD_MUST_CHANGE: The user's password must be changed before signing in.

Severity (bit 31)1: failure
Customer (bit 29)0: Microsoft
NTSTATUS inside (bit 28)0
Facility7 (0x007) WIN32
Code1907 (0x0773)