Re: set password expiry to a few weeks.

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Doh . . . so it does!

"Haggis" <Haggis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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This is to expire the actual account, not the password, is this right?

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"Haggis" <Haggis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Is there some way i can force a group of users on the domain to have
their
password expire in 2 weeks without changing the Domain policy and
affecting
other users.

The reason for this is that, for some time we have had a group of users
that
passwords never expire, now we want to enforce password expiry along
with
the
rest of the domain. However, i do not want to wait for the 180 days
before
they have to change it. i also do not want to set 'change password at
next
logon' as these particular users are mobile PDA users and have access
to a
network PC only occasionally. So once 'change password at next logon'
is
set,
and their device queries our mail server, their password will have to
be
changed. I need a 2 or 3 week buffer, which will be enough time for
them
to
have used an office PC to change password in the expiration warning
time.

You could run this command a number of times:
net user JSmith /domain /expires:10/31/2008

and this one to check your work:
net user JSmith





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