Resetting the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Administration Password

Follow these steps to reset a lost SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM admin user password. 

1. Log in as a Windows user with Administrative rights on the server hosting the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Vault.
2. Go to the Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services and Stop the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Server service.
   
   
   
   
3. Navigate to the pdmrc folder in the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM vault directory. By default, this is located at C:\VaultData\pdmrc.
4. First, confirm if the pdmwadmin user is set up as an administrator. In the pdmrc folder, open the file admin.pdmw using Notepad. If the pdmwadmin user is not present, paste the line below into the file.
   
   pdmwadmin          U           +
   
   
   
   
   
5. Open the users.pdmw file using Notepad. If the user has been deleted, paste the line below into the file. If the password for the pdmwadmin user has been changed, then replace the existing line in the file with the line below.
   
   pdmwadmin       <01>pNOxNT=Nq%OuNt^No^O}NTAN
   
   
   
   
   
6. To keep the changes that were made, navigate to the data folder in the vault directory (C:\VaultData\data) and delete the file cache.store.
   
   
   
   
7. Start the SOLIDWORKS Workgroup PDM Server service.
   
   
   

I hope you found this article helpful. Learn more about SOLIDWORKS PDM in the related articles listed below. 

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