Re: Active Directory password expiry notification via email??

[Raoul Armfield <rarmfield () amnh org>]

Stephane Favre wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I was wondering whether there would be a way of letting users know via email
> that their Active Directory password will be expiring in XX days. We have quite
> a few users that connect to our network only to collect email via PDA's and
> other mobile devices. So they seldom, if ever, actually log onto a windows
> PC.... it would be nice to inform these users that they need to contact the
> helpdeks the next day to reset their password, ect. 

I don't think that there is a way to do this natively but you could 
write a script that compares todays date with the Users 
PasswordExpirationDate property.  If today's date is within XX days of 
PasswordExpirationDate then the script can send an email to the user 
informing them that they have to change their password

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