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September 19, 2005
Sending mail to users whose password's about to expire
Fellow MVP (and soon-to-be-published author of Essential Exchange Server 2003) Michael Smith has a cool script that will automatically send warning mail to users whose passwords are about to expire. Run it daily, and your mail-only users will never again be able to complain that their passwords expired without prior notice.
Posted by Paul at September 19, 2005 05:14 AM
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They will still complain. They may not have a valid reason for complaining, but some of them will still complain. I run a similar script that warns people at three different intervals before their password actually expires, and I still hear from people who said they didn't know this would happen. Sigh....
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at September 25, 2005 10:02 PM
I thought pewa was supposed to do this :-)
I never got pewa working satisfactorily so I ended up using a script similar to this. I never had a problem with users complaining, but then getting a "fine" donated to charity if I had to reset their password because they didn't change in time was a good incentive.
Posted by: Andy at October 10, 2005 08:50 PM
You say PEWA didn't work "satisfactorily"-- did it work at all, or did it not do what you expected it to?
Posted by: Paul at October 11, 2005 10:44 AM