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Balor_Gafdan  Title: Gun Toting Conservative
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Registered: 2001-12-20 10:58:17
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Date Posted:
2/27/12 11:47am
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Windows 7 password expiration question |
With Group policy, there's no need for an extra script as at the 7 day mark that you've set, the user will get a pop up upon log on.
Am I missing something with the initial question?
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Lannai Posts: 103
Registered: 2004-10-7 21:55:56
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Date Posted:
2/27/12 11:47am
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Windows 7 password expiration question |
Balor_Gafdan posted:
With Group policy, there's no need for an extra script as at the 7 day mark that you've set, the user will get a pop up upon log on.
Am I missing something with the initial question?
He just wanted to know EXACTLY when it was going to expire. I don't think you missed anything...the OP was very clear about what he wanted to do.
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Date Posted:
2/27/12 11:47am
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Windows 7 password expiration question |
Steelwind_Oo posted:
net user %username% /domain | find "Password expires" | msg %username%
... if you want it to popup a dialog to the user with the expiration message.
Thank you, that's much easier than what I wrote up  Perfect.
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Windows 7 password expiration question |
Balor_Gafdan posted:
With Group policy, there's no need for an extra script as at the 7 day mark that you've set, the user will get a pop up upon log on.
Am I missing something with the initial question?
Yes... we dont require nightly restarts or log offs here, we just lock the PCs after 30 minutes of inactivity, so some users were not seeing their prompts at login since they just restart monthly or if they are experiencing problems.
Also, it's nice to know how long someone has left until password expiration, not just have them guess how long ago they got the warning about changing it.
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Ookane Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2002-10-15 12:42:14
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Date Posted:
2/27/12 11:47am
Subject:
Windows 7 password expiration question |
Recty posted:
Balor_Gafdan posted:
With Group policy, there's no need for an extra script as at the 7 day mark that you've set, the user will get a pop up upon log on.
Am I missing something with the initial question?
Yes... we dont require nightly restarts or log offs here, we just lock the PCs after 30 minutes of inactivity, so some users were not seeing their prompts at login since they just restart monthly or if they are experiencing problems.
Also, it's nice to know how long someone has left until password expiration, not just have them guess how long ago they got the warning about changing it.
Odd, I get a popup bubble from the tooltray stating something like "  our password expires in xx days, you should consider changing it soon," and I stay logged in months at a time on my main PC, just locking the screen.
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Mine, for instance, expires 03/03/2012. 3 more days... yet I only saw the popup when I logged on Monday (I restart over the weekend and do a full log on process every Monday morning) and havent seen it since.
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Balor_Gafdan Title: Gun Toting Conservative
Posts: 55
Registered: 2001-12-20 10:58:17
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Date Posted:
2/27/12 11:47am
Subject:
Windows 7 password expiration question |
Recty posted:
Balor_Gafdan posted:
With Group policy, there's no need for an extra script as at the 7 day mark that you've set, the user will get a pop up upon log on.
Am I missing something with the initial question?
Yes... we dont require nightly restarts or log offs here, we just lock the PCs after 30 minutes of inactivity, so some users were not seeing their prompts at login since they just restart monthly or if they are experiencing problems.
Also, it's nice to know how long someone has left until password expiration, not just have them guess how long ago they got the warning about changing it.
Ahhh, I didn't see the part about not requiring nightly restarts or log offs. Gotcha. See, now it makes sense.
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Balor_Gafdan Title: Gun Toting Conservative
Posts: 55
Registered: 2001-12-20 10:58:17
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Date Posted:
2/27/12 11:47am
Subject:
Windows 7 password expiration question |
Lannai posted:
Balor_Gafdan posted:
With Group policy, there's no need for an extra script as at the 7 day mark that you've set, the user will get a pop up upon log on.
Am I missing something with the initial question?
He just wanted to know EXACTLY when it was going to expire. I don't think you missed anything...the OP was very clear about what he wanted to do.
Which is what the group policy setting does. However, by asking for more information he was able to clarify WHY he wanted a script to do something that's built into a Group Policy environment.
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Balor_Gafdan Title: Gun Toting Conservative
Posts: 55
Registered: 2001-12-20 10:58:17
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Date Posted:
2/27/12 11:47am
Subject:
Windows 7 password expiration question |
Recty posted:
Mine, for instance, expires 03/03/2012. 3 more days... yet I only saw the popup when I logged on Monday (I restart over the weekend and do a full log on process every Monday morning) and havent seen it since.
Do a Group Policy result wizard on your machine and see if the policy governing password policy is running or erroring out. Gpresult /r on the local machine won't give you the detail you need to see if it "is" erroring out.
That being said, the script that queries the variable will work, so you should be good to go.
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