Does anyone have a script that would email users a notification before their
domain passwords expire?

Re: email notification for password expiration by Al

Al
Mon Dec 29 19:08:17 CST 2003


"drd" <cbts4me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone have a script that would email users a notification before
their
> domain passwords expire?

Seems like too much work. Why not get the domain to advise them of the
impending expiration, say, seven days in advance? I'm not quite sure where
you go to make that change, but it seems more appropriate to me than sending
a message. Would you want your script to send followup reminders each day
when they have not set the password in advance. Seems to me you have to let
the users do at least *some* of their own thinking.

/Al



Re: email notification for password expiration by drd

drd
Tue Dec 30 06:40:46 CST 2003

We already have the domain set up to notify the user on logon that their
password will expire within 14 days. We have other users that do not login
to the domain, but use a network login to view web pages. When their
password expires they do not have any way of knowing.
"Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]" <alan-no-drub-spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "drd" <cbts4me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OY1dXbizDHA.1708@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Does anyone have a script that would email users a notification before
> their
>> domain passwords expire?
>
> Seems like too much work. Why not get the domain to advise them of the
> impending expiration, say, seven days in advance? I'm not quite sure where
> you go to make that change, but it seems more appropriate to me than
> sending
> a message. Would you want your script to send followup reminders each day
> when they have not set the password in advance. Seems to me you have to
> let
> the users do at least *some* of their own thinking.
>
> /Al
>
>



Re: email notification for password expiration by Al

Al
Tue Dec 30 12:44:48 CST 2003

Sorry, I had not thought of that, as your environment differs significantly
from mine.

Rather than an e-mail message, though, why not emulate the logon expiry
notification through your web page? If you are running IIS, it would be just
as easy to write a script to extract the password expiry information from
the domain and embed that in an ASP script instead of an off-line script
that sends e-mails.

How do your users actually change their domain passwords once they realize
they need to? If, as you say, they do not log on to the domain, do they
access a web page on which they can change their password? If so, you are
already doing part of what I suggest above.

/Al

"drd" <cbts4me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> We already have the domain set up to notify the user on logon that their
> password will expire within 14 days. We have other users that do not
login
> to the domain, but use a network login to view web pages. When their
> password expires they do not have any way of knowing.
> "Al Dunbar [MS-MVP]" <alan-no-drub-spam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:OfsFrFnzDHA.2460@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> >
> > "drd" <cbts4me@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:OY1dXbizDHA.1708@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >> Does anyone have a script that would email users a notification before
> > their
> >> domain passwords expire?
> >
> > Seems like too much work. Why not get the domain to advise them of the
> > impending expiration, say, seven days in advance? I'm not quite sure
where
> > you go to make that change, but it seems more appropriate to me than
> > sending
> > a message. Would you want your script to send followup reminders each
day
> > when they have not set the password in advance. Seems to me you have to
> > let
> > the users do at least *some* of their own thinking.
> >
> > /Al
> >
> >
>
>