Welcome to PremLINK.

It's likely that along the link to this site you received a set of credentials (username and password). If you did not type in the password personally and in a confidential manner but rather it was chosen for you; then it's a temporary password. Meaning, your account lacks a permanent password and thus it's locked. To unlock it you need to set a new password.

Passwords in PremLINK are pretty lax, you are not forced to include certain types of characters for a password to be valid, you do however need to make it somewhat lengthy.

How long? It's best you don't know for sure, at least for the time being. It's recommended to choose a passphrase rather than a password i.e. a sentence. It will be long enough and easier to type. Though your password can include spaces, it's best you avoid them because the support for spaces in passwords varies across apps.

Across apps? What do you mean?

The account we're talking about is commonly known as a domain account, or a directory [service] account. A directory service is a form of database but tuned specifically to store user credentials. Various services (or "apps") use the directory to get the user base that will be allowed to access the service. Directory accounts let you share data between apps and use a single username across all services/apps

As mentioned, you're account is locked while it has temporary credentials so you will not be allowed to continue until you set permanent credentials. Most apps and services will inform you about this or fail silently but a few highly secure apps that are allowed to write to the directory will offer you the chance to change your password in the spot. We'll go briefly over a few of them; please note that there are many others not listed here. Whatever works for you is fine.

Also known as "Outlook on the Web" and "Outlook Web Application" (OWA).

Perhaps this might be as good a time as any to tell you that your domain account comes with Exchange Services (Enterprise-grade email and sync of contacts, calendar, etc). You can set your password and set your initialize your Exchange services in a single place. Just go to antipostal.com and try to log in, you'll be asked to set a new password, choose a language and a time zone. Be patient: the first time you access these services about 14 servers are started for you if they're not already running.

ADFS has a simple password update app perfect for accounts that had their password reset.

This only applies for users logged in on computers joined to the Active Directory domain, for which they need to be connected from which they can "physically" reach the "Active Directory servers" (i.e. Domain Controllers) or that can reach the Domain Controllers through a tunnel.

Log in using your temporary credentials. Your systems automatically will ask you to set new credentials.

On Windows: On the keyboard, press ⌃⌥⌦ to access the Secure Desktop