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by hmacpherson

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I am looking for a solution or third party tool which would prompt a remote user accessing his mail via outlook express(IMAP to exchange server) to change his network password when it is up for renewal.
The user is off premises and connecting via the WEB using a third party ISP.
Please can anyone help.

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by shanghai sam

Now this is a good one. Without trying implement the whole plan, I can imagine something like this. Step one would be to somehow let the users know that they need to change their password. You would have to ensure that users had plenty of notification that their password was going to expire. Assuming that users log in at least once a week and that passwords have to be changed every 4 months, you could write a script that scrubbed the user database for all passwords that are at least 90 days old. The script could then email users with a notification that their accounts are going to expire in 30 days. The email could contain a URL to a web page that allowed them to change their password. I know that IIS supports changing domain passwords using htr files. Microsoft articles Q268419, Q240654 and Q184619 deal with this technology. You could also do it with active server pages. Be careful with the htr files. There are specific security vulnerabilities associated with them. Also, no matter what you choose, protect it with SSL.

Summary.
1. Use a script to email a notification to users.
2. Users see the email and go to the web page
3. Some method (HTR or ASP) used to change password
4. Happy users and admins all around.

by hmacpherson

So is there no third party add on we can use that would instead of asking for a password to authenticate to access mail from our exchange it will ask them to change password when due, I am not the best script writer so your solution sounds fantasticbut a bit to much to carry out.Any other ideas, this is my tenth forum on different sites and you are the only reply..Thanks

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