I have just come back from 6 weeks leave. While I was gone, users at one of our sites (they have their own W2K3 domain and small network) started getting ‘password expiry’ messages. The date for password changing passed while I was away, but now all the users who didn’t change their password by the due date cannot log in. They keep getting ‘the system could not log you on. Make sure your username and domain are correct and type your password again. Letters in passwords must be typed using correct case’. They aren’t presented with an option to change the password, they are just denied access. And now the scary part – the same thing happens to the domain administrator account….so I cannot even log onto the server to see what is going on. The DC in this domain also runs an enterprise application, which is still running at this stage, so I don’t even really want to reboot the server just in case that stops working as well.
I posted this question on the Microsoft forums, and copped abuse for my troubles, so, if for some reason you find this question offensive just disregard it and move on to the next one, but if you have anything constructive to add, please do!