Hi @TimoT ,
In my experience, the reason for the difference is due to cmd line escape characters and I've found including certain special characters (^ in particular) to be problematic
The .bat tools to reset passwords uses cmd line as an interpreter and that's why I believe Cloud Builder gives you these restrictions to avoid those issues.
When using the passwordReset.bat tool - you aren't restricted to certain special characters, only those that cmd line use as escape characters.
There's info here on how to escape them, although I've never got it to work:
https://ss64.com/nt/syntax-esc.html
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