RE: [Bulk] Re: Password expirations

[David Lum]

I've been using Michael's script for about a year now, works great and our VPN 
users really appreciate it.

Dave

From: Orland, Kathleen [mailto:korl...@rogers.com]
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: [Bulk] Re: Password expirations

+1
I'm using this too.

From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 5:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: [Bulk] Re: Password expirations

There is a free one that works pretty well.
www.netwrix.com<http://www.netwrix.com/> (check the freeware section). It 
actually emails the users to tell them...I think the default is 14 days 
before...it will also send you an email with all the passwords that are going 
to expire within that period. The only thing I had to do was block the website 
on our ISA server, because as much as I tell/email NOT to click on the link 
that the paid version enables they still do. Then I get an email from them 
saying "hey..my password expired and the link doesn't work!" So I forward off 
my latest email to them.

HTH!
Cameron
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Michael B. Smith 
mailto:mich...@smithcons.com>> wrote:
There are quite a few scripts out there that do this. Here was one I wrote a 
long time ago. I've updated it to PowerShell (and fixed a few bugs in the 
process), but never blogged the update. I'll do that one day.

http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-e-mail-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com<http://theessentialexchange.com/>


-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich 
[mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com<mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com>]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Password expirations

Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user when
their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a
week at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired
password and never know it until they try and access a network drive and are
denied.

I know, I could probably force the system to log them out every night at 7PM
or something, but that's really more work than I want to do, among other
things. :)

Thanks

Thanks,
John Aldrich
IT Manager,
Blueridge Carpet
706-276-2001, Ext. 2233




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RE: [Bulk] Re: Password expirations

[Orland, Kathleen]

+1

I'm using this too. 

 

From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 5:03 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: [Bulk] Re: Password expirations

 

There is a free one that works pretty well.

www.netwrix.com <http://www.netwrix.com/>  (check the freeware section). It
actually emails the users to tell them...I think the default is 14 days
before...it will also send you an email with all the passwords that are
going to expire within that period. The only thing I had to do was block the
website on our ISA server, because as much as I tell/email NOT to click on
the link that the paid version enables they still do. Then I get an email
from them saying "hey..my password expired and the link doesn't work!" So I
forward off my latest email to them.

 

HTH!

Cameron

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Michael B. Smith 
wrote:

There are quite a few scripts out there that do this. Here was one I wrote a
long time ago. I've updated it to PowerShell (and fixed a few bugs in the
process), but never blogged the update. I'll do that one day.

http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-
e-mail-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> 



-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Password expirations

Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user when
their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a
week at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired
password and never know it until they try and access a network drive and are
denied.

I know, I could probably force the system to log them out every night at 7PM
or something, but that's really more work than I want to do, among other
things. :)

Thanks

Thanks,
John Aldrich
IT Manager,
Blueridge Carpet
706-276-2001, Ext. 2233  




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RE: Password expirations

[Terry Dickson]

We use Kix for our scripting of Logon scripts, but it can be run anytime so 
just create a script and schedule it and you are done.


From: John Aldrich [jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 3:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Password expirations

Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user when
their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a
week at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired
password and never know it until they try and access a network drive and are
denied.

I know, I could probably force the system to log them out every night at 7PM
or something, but that's really more work than I want to do, among other
things. :)

Thanks

Thanks,
John Aldrich
IT Manager,
Blueridge Carpet
706-276-2001, Ext. 2233




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RE: Password expirations

[Michael B. Smith]

Yes. you just need to point it to an SMTP server.

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Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
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-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 5:08 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Password expirations

Will this work if you don't have Exchange? We have our email hosted by our
internet provider...




-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Password expirations

There are quite a few scripts out there that do this. Here was one I wrote a
long time ago. I've updated it to PowerShell (and fixed a few bugs in the
process), but never blogged the update. I'll do that one day.

http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-
e-mail-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Password expirations

Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user when
their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a
week at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired
password and never know it until they try and access a network drive and are
denied.

I know, I could probably force the system to log them out every night at 7PM
or something, but that's really more work than I want to do, among other
things. :)

Thanks

Thanks,
John Aldrich
IT Manager, 
Blueridge Carpet
706-276-2001, Ext. 2233




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RE: Password expirations

[John Aldrich]

Will this work if you don't have Exchange? We have our email hosted by our
internet provider...




-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:50 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Password expirations

There are quite a few scripts out there that do this. Here was one I wrote a
long time ago. I've updated it to PowerShell (and fixed a few bugs in the
process), but never blogged the update. I'll do that one day.

http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-
e-mail-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Password expirations

Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user when
their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a
week at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired
password and never know it until they try and access a network drive and are
denied.

I know, I could probably force the system to log them out every night at 7PM
or something, but that's really more work than I want to do, among other
things. :)

Thanks

Thanks,
John Aldrich
IT Manager, 
Blueridge Carpet
706-276-2001, Ext. 2233




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Re: Password expirations

[Cameron]

There is a free one that works pretty well.
www.netwrix.com (check the freeware section). It actually emails the users
to tell them...I think the default is 14 days before...it will also send you
an email with all the passwords that are going to expire within that period.
The only thing I had to do was block the website on our ISA server, because
as much as I tell/email NOT to click on the link that the paid version
enables they still do. Then I get an email from them saying "hey..my
password expired and the link doesn't work!" So I forward off my latest
email to them.

HTH!
Cameron

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Michael B. Smith wrote:

> There are quite a few scripts out there that do this. Here was one I wrote
> a long time ago. I've updated it to PowerShell (and fixed a few bugs in the
> process), but never blogged the update. I'll do that one day.
>
>
> http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-e-mail-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael B. Smith
> Consultant and Exchange MVP
> http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:43 PM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Password expirations
>
> Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user
> when
> their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a
> week at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired
> password and never know it until they try and access a network drive and
> are
> denied.
>
> I know, I could probably force the system to log them out every night at
> 7PM
> or something, but that's really more work than I want to do, among other
> things. :)
>
> Thanks
>
> Thanks,
> John Aldrich
> IT Manager,
> Blueridge Carpet
> 706-276-2001, Ext. 2233
>
>
>
>
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RE: Password expirations

[Damien Solodow]

"There are seldom technical solutions to behavioral problems"

You could set the domain security option via GPO that makes an unlock re-auth 
to the DC. That *may* give them another "your password expires in X days" 
message.

DAMIEN SOLODOW
Systems Engineer
317.447.6033 (office)
317.447.6014 (fax)
HARRISON COLLEGE

-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Password expirations

Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user when 
their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a week 
at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired password 
and never know it until they try and access a network drive and are denied.

I know, I could probably force the system to log them out every night at 7PM or 
something, but that's really more work than I want to do, among other things. :)

Thanks

Thanks,
John Aldrich
IT Manager,
Blueridge Carpet
706-276-2001, Ext. 2233




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RE: Password expirations

[Michael B. Smith]

There are quite a few scripts out there that do this. Here was one I wrote a 
long time ago. I've updated it to PowerShell (and fixed a few bugs in the 
process), but never blogged the update. I'll do that one day.

http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-e-mail-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx

Regards,

Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com


-Original Message-
From: John Aldrich [mailto:jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 4:43 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Password expirations

Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user when
their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a
week at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired
password and never know it until they try and access a network drive and are
denied.

I know, I could probably force the system to log them out every night at 7PM
or something, but that's really more work than I want to do, among other
things. :)

Thanks

Thanks,
John Aldrich
IT Manager, 
Blueridge Carpet
706-276-2001, Ext. 2233




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Password expirations

[John Aldrich]

Any sort of a utility that can be run on a workstation to advise a user when
their password has expired? Most of my users only shut down/log out once a
week at most (Friday night) so they often go several days with an expired
password and never know it until they try and access a network drive and are
denied.

I know, I could probably force the system to log them out every night at 7PM
or something, but that's really more work than I want to do, among other
things. :)

Thanks

Thanks,
John Aldrich
IT Manager, 
Blueridge Carpet
706-276-2001, Ext. 2233




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