Outlook Force Prompt Mac Users To

Outlook Force Prompt Mac Users To

My question is about Active Directory and user passwords: Is there an easy way to prompt the Mac users to reset their Active Directory passwords before those passwords expire Our AD polices require password changes But because the Mac users are not prompted, their passwords often expire and need to be manually reset.

Does Outlook 2011 support such notifications Are there other alternatives.

In Mac OS X 10.5, this worked only for Active Directory; it wasnt until 10.6 that it also worked with Apples Open Directory.

That allows me to more easily manage them within Active Directory.

Second, your users must be logging in with Active Directory accounts.

Even if you set up all of the above, there are still some caveats: For one thing, Mac OS X can only notify users of impending password expirations at the login window.

I think its silly that OS X cant do what Windows does and pop up a warning notice that says, Hey, your password just expired.

This is something Ive been on Apple about for a few years now, and Ive filed a bug or two with them about it.

Anothe potential problem is that the only OS-provided user interface for changing an Active Directlry password is in the login window or in Kerberos.app (in Mac OS X 10.5) or Ticket Viewer (in Mac OS X 10.6); both are found in SystemLibraryCoreServices.

The advantage to using the login window is that changing the password there also changes the login password in the users Keychain.

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Outlook For Mac Force Password Prompt