Okay ... we had no problems maybe because we had assigned pw's which the users could not change. We only had one VPN user - that never used it :-\ Now we have about 20 VPN users. We also executed the Group Policy and went thru AD and checked "force pw change" at around 10PM and announced it many times. We had under 100 users at the time so that didn't take too long. IIRC there were about 5 or 10 users who needed hand holding to change the pw.
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ben, > > They will have all sorts of problems accessing resources if you changed > that right now. :) > > The remote people would be especially pleased with you. Depending on what > services they were trying to access, they *might* be told to change their > passwords, but many of the resources would just do weird things to them. > > Like Jonathan mentioned, I'd send out a nice memo indicating that passwords > will need to change before XXX date, and then set the new policy to go into > effect the day after that. > > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > > > On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, list, >> >> After years of lobbying on my part, I have finally gotten top >> management at %WORK% to approve a company password policy, complete >> with enforcement via Active Directory/Group Policy. (And there was >> much rejoicing!) >> >> I know we have people who have never changed their password since >> they were hired in 2001. When we suddenly go from "No password >> expiration" to "X days", at their next logon, they'll be prompted to >> change their password. However, until they logoff/logon, the system >> won't prompt them. My question is: Will they have trouble accessing >> resources until they change their password? I've never tried to use a >> Windows domain with an 8-year-expired password before. >> >> Win 2000 AD server, Win XP Pro SP3 clients. >> >> (Yes I know Win2K has five weeks until EOL. I'm working on it. >> Budget priorities, bad economy, yadda yadda.) >> >> -- Ben >> >> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ >> ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ >> > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~