disable password expiration prompt?

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powellr

Anyone know if it is possible to alter the text on the
password expiration warning dialog box or disable the
warning altogether? I know that you can change the default
expiry warning time from 14 days to your own setting, but
what if you set it to 0 days notice?
 
Not sure that you can edit that dialog box. You might have to contact
MS-PSS for that one. You can change the dialog box that pops up when you
have to enter a new password if you have the Password Complexity setting
configured. The default message is rather general and the updated message
spells out exactly what you need ( any three of the following: lower case,
upper case, numeric, special character ).

Why do you want to change the text or to disable it altogether? What is the
real issue here? If you change the time from 14 days to 0 days then it will
pop up on the day ( well, that is not actually so correct. It is based on
time, not date! ) that you need to change your password. The way to get
around this is to make sure that in each user account object for which you
do not their password to expire ( which defeats the purpose of having a
password policy...you are only as strong as your weakest link ) that the
'Password never expires" check box is checked.

But, why would you want to do this?

HTH,

Cary
 
Thanks for the reply. We use a third party product (Psynch
by M-Tech)to allow users to reset passwords for all
internal systems and applications in one place. We do not
want users to receive a prompt from Windows because we
want them to go to an internal website and reset all of
their passwords via the Psynch app. We use the Windows
expiry information in conjunction with custom scripts to
send users email notifications, and the native Windows
expiration warning causes confusion. If we could edit the
dialog box to point them to our internal site it would be
acceptable, or get rid of the warning altogether would be
best. Maybe we can redirect them from the password
strength rules dialog box, but that sounds messy and may
not work well. Any other ideas?


Sounds like we're stuck with the warning unless we get
Microsoft involved and have them rewrite the
 
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