password expiration

[Andrew Story]

Hi,

Win2k AD.

We have users the connect via vpn, which works fine, but means that they do
not get promted when their password is expriing. Is there a method to find
out when a password for an account (or multiple accounts) is due to expire,
like a report you can get from AD or similar?

Would save my org a bit of pain (and 200 Helpdesk calls a year)

TIA, Andrew

 

[Paul Williams [MVP]]

Start here:
-- http://support.microsoft.com/?id=323750

 

[Andrew Story]

Thanks Paul.

Will this work for all users in a domain? I'd rather not try to get this
info on a user by user basis, if it's possible to retrieve a list of all
users with relevant output, that would be superb.

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hi,

Win2k AD.

We have users the connect via vpn, which works fine, but means that they do
not get promted when their password is expriing. Is there a method to find
out when a password for an account (or multiple accounts) is due to expire,
like a report you can get from AD or similar?

Would save my org a bit of pain (and 200 Helpdesk calls a year)

TIA, Andrew

See tip 7955 » How do I e-mail a password expiration notice to selected users? 21-Apr-04
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com

OR

8485 » How can I calculate a user's approximate password expiration date?

If the help desk wanted a specific user:
net user <username> /domain|find "Password expires"




Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

 

[Jerold Schulman]

Hi,

Win2k AD.

We have users the connect via vpn, which works fine, but means that they do
not get promted when their password is expriing. Is there a method to find
out when a password for an account (or multiple accounts) is due to expire,
like a report you can get from AD or similar?

Would save my org a bit of pain (and 200 Helpdesk calls a year)

TIA, Andrew

See tip 7955 » How do I e-mail a password expiration notice to selected users? 21-Apr-04
in the 'Tips & Tricks' at http://www.jsifaq.com

OR

8485 » How can I calculate a user's approximate password expiration date?

If the help desk wanted a specific user:
net user <username> /domain|find "Password expires"




Jerold Schulman
Windows Server MVP
JSI, Inc.
http://www.jsiinc.com
http://www.jsifaq.com

 

[Andrew Story]

Thankyou so much Jerald.

That is absolutley perfect and will save my org lots of time.

Cheers, Andrew

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

http://www.joeware.net/win/free/tools/findexpacc.htm

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


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[Hank Arnold]

Am I correct in interpreting the "-days" flag as attempting to tell me which
passwords will expire in "days" days?

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

From the usage (findexpacc /?)

-days x Best effort look into future by x days, I call
this best effort because it is # of days * 24 hours
look ahead, it doesn't go to the beginning of the
specified day.






--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


---O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition now available---

http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm