tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56123156690231464462024-03-13T11:40:53.760-07:00Active Directory User Password Expiration NotificationAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614337102517782965noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612315669023146446.post-28854146857329105542014-08-28T02:44:00.000-07:002017-02-05T23:19:11.573-08:00PowerShell Script for Password Expiration Notification<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">If
you have users in your Active Directory network in large numbers who logon in
their AD account rarely then it might be possible that they face password
expiration problem for their accounts. On the other hand there might be some
users who do not pay required attention on the pop-up messages that appear on
their Windows screen to remind about password expiration. Thus results, increase
in number of help desk phone calls, emails and tickets for resetting password. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Most
of the IT administrators do not much pleasure while resetting passwords as this
task involves lot of time and efforts of IT staff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">What
is the best way to minimize the possibility of password expiration? The answer
is, send an automatic email notification to users whose password is expiring
soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now,
the question is…..how we can do this. This is can be achieve either by using
Power Shell script or by using any automated <a href="http://www.lepide.com/user-password-expiration-reminder/" rel="nofollow">password expiration notification</a>
software.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;">I found a PowerShell script on web to send password
expiry notification on <a href="http://www.itouthouse.com/2012/06/active-directory-password-expiration.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.itouthouse.com/2012/06/active-directory-password-expiration.html</a>
blog. This script does well for sending notification to users whose password is
expiring in 14, 7, 3, 1 and 0 days. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Import-Module ActiveDirectory<br /><br />$maxdays=(Get-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy).MaxPasswordAge.TotalDays<br />$summarybody="Name `t ExpireDate `t DaysToExpire `n"<br /><br />(Get-ADUser
-filter {(mail -like "*@domain.com") -and (Enabled -eq "True") -and
(PasswordNeverExpires -eq "False")} -properties *) | Sort-Object
pwdLastSet |<br />foreach-object {<br /><br /> $lastset=Get-Date([System.DateTime]::FromFileTimeUtc($_.pwdLastSet))<br /> $expires=$lastset.AddDays($maxdays).ToShortDateString()<br /> $daystoexpire=[math]::round((New-TimeSpan -Start $(Get-Date) -End $expires).TotalDays)<br /> $samname=$_.samaccountname<br /> $firstname=$_.GivenName<br />
if (($daystoexpire -eq 14) -or ($daystoexpire -eq 7) -or ($daystoexpire
-eq 3) -or ($daystoexpire -eq 1) -or ($daystoexpire -eq 0)) {<br /> #if ($daystoexpire -le 14) {<br /> $ThereAreExpiring=$true<br /> <br /> # CONFIG: Enter from email address. <br /> $emailFrom = "helpdesk@domain.com"<br /> # CONFIG: Replace domain domain.com with your email domain. Do not change $samname. <br /> $emailTo = "$samname@domain.com"<br /> if ($daystoexpire -eq 0) {<br /> # CONFIG: Enter text for subject and body of email notification for zero days remaining. <br /> $subject = "$firstname, your password has expried!"<br /> $body = "$firstname,<br />Your password has expired and you must change it immediately. No further email notifications will be sent. <br /><br />Contact support at extension XXXX for assistance."<br /> }<br /> Else {<br /> # CONFIG: Enter text for subject and body of email notification for 14, 7, 3, and 1 days remaining. <br /> $subject = "$firstname, your password expires in $daystoexpire day(s)!"<br /> $body = "$firstname,<br />Your password expires in $daystoexpire day(s).<br /><br />If you are using a Windows computer, press Ctrl + Alt + Del the click Change password.<br /><br />If you are using a Mac computer follow the instructions at http://sharepoint/Documentation to change your password. <br />"<br /> }<br /> # CONFIG: Enter your smtp server here. <br /> $smtpServer = "email.domain.com"<br /> $smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)<br /> $smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $body) <br /> <br /> $summarybody += "$samname `t $expires `t $daystoexpire `n"<br /> }<br /> elseif ($daystoexpire -lt 0) {<br /> $ThereAreExpiring=$true<br /> # Add a note to the report email, but don't notify user. <br /> $summarybody += "$samname `t $expires `t $daystoexpire `n"<br /> }<br />}<br />if ($ThereAreExpiring) {<br /> # CONFIG: From address for report to Helpdesk/IT Admin staff. <br /> $emailFrom = "helpdesk@domain.com"<br /> # CONFIG: Address to send report email to (for Helpdesk/IT Admin staff. <br /> $emailTo = "helpdesk@domain.com"<br /> # CONFIG: Subject for report email. <br /> $subject = "Expiring passwords"<br /> $body = $summarybody<br /> # CONFIG: SMTP Server. <br /> $smtpServer = "email.domain.com"<br /> $smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)<br /> $smtp.Send($emailFrom, $emailTo, $subject, $body)</span></span></span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01614337102517782965noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5612315669023146446.post-56411772576295330852014-05-02T03:18:00.000-07:002017-02-05T23:19:27.961-08:00How to get password expiration notification before expiration date<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Password expiration
issues are more important than what they might appear at the first
glance. IT Helpdesk, in a medium to large size organization, end up
getting tens of password resetting requests from end users due to
expired passwords every day. These issues not only lead to wastage of
time at users end but also for IT Helpdesk staff. Windows has its way
of reminding users about their soon-to-expire password when they do
interactive logon.</div>
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But in some cases such as VPN and OWA, users may
be accessing the system from outside the organizational premise and
hence they could not get the <a href="http://www.lepide.com/user-password-expiration-reminder/" rel="nofollow">password expiration notification</a> from
interactive logon. Also, starting with Windows 7, password expiration
notification has been moved to system notification area, which users
may tend to ignore.<br />
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Microsoft provides a way
to deal with the problem with the help of WMI query. Administrators
can run it to find out soon to expired passwords and prompt users to
change their passwords before specified number of days. Beside WMI
query, there are commercially available tools to handle user’s
password expiration. These tools allow administrators to get a bird’s
eye view of password expiration status of all users without
disturbing the end users. Admins can get reports right in their
mailbox detailing the password expiration status of all users across
domains in the organization. Besides, individual emails can be sent
to users across domain reminding them of the password expiry. Emails,
not only emphasize the importance of resetting the passwords to end
users but are usually hard to miss given that almost all
organizational users don’t forget to look into their Inbox at least
once. </div>
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<a href="http://www.lepide.com/user-password-expiration-reminder/" rel="nofollow">Lepide User PasswordExpiration Reminder</a> tool is one such commercially available software
that can take care of the entire User password expiration reminder
issue. It reminds users when their password is about to expire and
provides six critical reports on Users whose password never expires,
Users whose password is soon to expire, Recent logon failures,
Password Change Reports, Users with expired password, and Change
Password at Next Logon Users. Notifications can be scheduled based on
Password expiration policies defined at OU level. There are
provisions of real-time alerts and report scheduling, so you don’t
need to be daily working with the tool. Just configure it once as per
your requirement and it will be taking care of all password
expiration notifications in the way you wanted. Software is available
in demo version of 15 days to allow you to evaluate it before
purchase. Surely, an important Active Directory add-on tool to save
Helpdesk time and resources.
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