microsoft.public.windowsxp.security_admin

I found an affordable utility on the web, that will send out emails to users
when their password is x days from expiring.
It can also provide warnings at 3 different "x Days" form expiring.
regards,
Rick
rgohl@yahoo.com

"Chris.Coops" wrote:

> Hi,
> A number of our users are remote, and others have both a desktop and a
> laptop (for use at home, don't ask!), and the only people that don't
> have this problem are the office workers using an always connected
> desktop.
>
> It seems this is a known issue, but nothing with a concrete solution,
> so I was hoping someone can give me their experiences.
> Our password expiration policy is 60 days, with a 5 day warning.
> However, remote users do not get this warning or even the final
> message that their password has expired. They logon to their Windows
> XP laptop, and load up our VPN client and the only error message they
> get is Microsoft Outlook asking them for their password (usually
> outlook connects directly to their email account).
> Then I get the phone call to say they can't logon to Outlook. Most
> user's have been re-educated to think back to when they last changed
> their password and will figure our they have to exit outlook and
> manually reset their password. But it's still a hassle that shouldn't
> be!
>
> Those with home laptops but desktops for office work, have a similar
> problem. They get notified at work what their new password is, but
> when they go home have to use their old password, and before
> connecting to the VPN client manually change the password on the
> laptop to the same one their chose at work.
>
> Is there any way around this issue, especially the remote users one.
> In my understanding Windows should also contain information as to the
> password expiry and pass this information to the active directory the
> next time an authenticated user logs onto the domain through VPN. Or
> is that too logical?
>
> TIA
>
> Chris
>