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Taking out the 15 day expiration message

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by thorpe.pm

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My IT Manager has requested I find a way to stop the annoying pop up message that warns you you have 15 days (etc.) before your password expires and counting down to 1 day and have it only warn you say 3 days before and counting down. I asked how to do it and was given a way by editing the registry which worked. My question now is .... how can I do this such that I can make the change system wide on all workstations at the same time? I have over 300 workstations here! Does anyone know how to do this? Thanks!

In case you're wondering, here's the registry fix for that: Use registry editor to add a registry entry that adjusts ths expiration day value. Go to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon subkey. Add the value PasswordExpiryWarning (of type REG_DWORD). The range for this value is in number of days, and the default value is 14.

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by syscokid

Are you running a login script? If so, export that single key to a file (call it expiry.reg). Save the file to your netlogon share. Then add a line to your login script:

regedit /s \\myserver\netlogon\expiry.reg

Next time someone logs on tothat machine, the change is made.

by jstankos

The answer provided by Aciscokid would definitely work. I use a program be Aelita called Multi Reg that allows me to select a group of computers and apply registry changes to all of them simultaneously. As a matter of fact, I used Multi Reg to exactly what you are trying to do...it took about 10 minutes for 1200+ workstations. If you can't find Multi Reg, let me know, and I'll find the URL.

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