user password group policy

[Oldmans]

On our Windows 2003 Server / Domain there are more than 80 users connected. Somehow I want to apply a new password policy for all users connected to this domain. The only problem I am facing is few users have set their password to Never Expire. So I wanted to know if I apply the new policy, will it effect these users as well who have set passwords to never expire option? Or will they get any prompt message about my newly applied policy?

Thanks for all suggestions.

[Henri@ksen]

Nope, it will not override the users "password never expires" settings. You will need to manually change their user properties one by one. If you remove this, then only your new Policy will take effect.

[kusumanabh]

Hello Oldmans. You will need to first create a list of users who have set their passwords to never expire. Once done, you will need to change / modify their properties and set it to password to expired. After doing the same, on Error Resume Next

Set objConnection = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
Set objCommand = CreateObject("ADODB.Command")
objConnection.Provider = "ADsDSOObject"
objConnection.Open "Active Directory Provider"
Set objCommand.ActiveConnection = objConnection

objCommand.Properties("Page Size") = 1000

objCommand.CommandText = _
"<LDAP://dc=fabrikam,dc=com>;" & _

"(&(objectCategory=User)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=65536));"
& _
"Name;Subtree"
Set objRecordSet = objCommand.Execute

objRecordSet.MoveFirst
Do Until objRecordSet.EOF
Wscript.Echo objRecordSet.Fields("Name").Value
Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://CN=" & objRecordSet.Fields("Name").Value
&",OU=Users,DC=Fabrikam,DC=com")
objUser.pwdLastSet = 0
objUser.SetInfo
objRecordSet.MoveNext
Loop

[Hawkin's]

You just need to create a saved query\custom query with this syntax in your in dsa.msc:

(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=65536))

This will be placed in your Users computers and you can simply run it anytime by clicking on it.

[Oldmans]

thanks everyone! Very helpful.