ArtfulBits Password Expiration Web Partfor Microsoft® SharePoint®

User GuideOverview .................................................................................................................................................................... 1
Feature List ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Why ArtfulBits Password Expiration Web Part? ....................................................................................................... 2
How to Use ................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Password Expiration Global Settings........................................................................................................................ 2
Password Expiration Web Part ................................................................................................................................ 4
Password Expiration Alert ....................................................................................................................................... 5
Release Notes ............................................................................................................................................................. 7
See Also ...................................................................................................................................................................... 8Remarks...................................................................................................................................................................... 9

Overview
ArtfulBits Password Expiration Web Part enables notification of Active Directory users through the Web Part userinterface along with a link to a web page to change their password and/or an email that is automatically sent to theirinbox notifying the user that their password is about to expire within a specified grace period. Administrators also
have an option to force the users to be automatically redirected to selected web page in order to change theirpasswords.

In addition, administrators can schedule the email notifications using Password Expiration Alert Job and configure
how often and for how long the emails will be sent to users.

Feature List
FeatureSharePoint2010

SharePoint
2013

Notify users via Web Part interface when password is about to expire
Ability to automatically redirect the users to a specified URL to enforce passwordchanging
Send email notifications to users before their passwords expire
Schedule frequency and grace period for sending emails
Customizable email notification
Language pack support (desired localization could be added by request)

Why ArtfulBits Password Expiration Web Part?
ArtfulBits Password Expiration Web Part is unique SharePoint add-on that can prevent password expiration by
notifying the AD users via email or via Web Part interface that their passwords are about to expire. Using in
combination with ArtfulBits Password Change Web Part can substantially improve users’ password management.

How to UseArtfulBits Password Expiration Web Part product includes two components:ArtfulBits Password Expiration Web Part - the Web Part can be configured to display warning message thatusers’ password is about to expire or to force redirect them to the web page to change their password
ArtfulBits Password Expiration Alert - periodically this timer job reads user information in Active Directory todetermine the password expiration date for SharePoint users. If user password is about to expire then it sends
email notification with link to change password

NOTE: Password Expiration works only with Active Directory users and supports only one domain.

Password Expiration Global Settings
To give access for timer job to read user information in Active Directory you should open "Password Expiration
Settings" page in your site collection (Site Actions  Site Settings  Site Collection Administration  Password
Expiration settings) and provide Administrative Account that has right to read Active Directory user information.

Domain - enter the domain nameAccount Name - enter the Account Name for the domain administrator who has read-only rights to Active
Directory user information
Password - enter the password for the Active Directory accountIn this page you can also specify email notification settings:


Password Expiry Warning Period – specify the number of days left till the password expiration date that youwant email notification to be sent to users
Email Subject and Email Body - specify e-mail subject and body. You can use the following template fields inemail content: $DAYSLEFT$, $EXPIRATIONDATE$, $TODAY$, $USERLOGIN$, $USERNAME$
Email From - specify sender’s address
Email Bcc- specify administrator email to be notified about confirmation e-mails sent to users

Password Expiration Web Part
To use the ArtfulBits Password Expiration Web Part you must first activate "ArtfulBits Password Expiration Web Part"site collection feature and then add this web part to your desired page as any standard Web Part.

After that click on "Open the tool pane" link to edit the Web Part.

On Password Expiration Settings panel you can configure the following:

Password Expiry Warning Period - specify the number of days left till the password expiration date that you
either want users to be automatically redirected to the specified URL or to display password expiry warning
message in the Web Part
Automatically redirect users to password change page - check this option to automatically redirect users to thespecified URL and type server relative URL to a web page where users can change their password or get
instructions on how to do thisDisplay password expiry warning message - select to display password expiry warning message in the Web Part.
You can use the following template fields in warning message: $DAYSLEFT$, $EXPIRATIONDATE$, $TODAY$,$USERLOGIN$, $USERNAME$

Click "Click here to open Password Expiration settings page" link to navigate to Password Expiration settings page,
where you can specify Administrative Account that used to read Active Directory user information.

Password Expiration Alert
To add "ArtfulBits Password Expiration Alert" timer job to selected Web application, administrator needs to activate"ArtfulBits Password Expiration Alert Job" Web application feature.
By default, timer job runs weekly on Sunday at 2:00 AM. You can modify the schedule by specifying when the timer
job will run. In order to do this please select Central Administration Monitoring Timer JobsReview job
definitions:

Then click on "ArtfulBits Password Expiration Alert" link of target web application in Job Definitions table. In"Recurring Schedule" section edit page you can schedule timer job to monitor users’ password expiration date.

Release Notes
Versionv1.1(February 5, 2013)

v1.01(November 10, 2011)
v1.0(July 29, 2011)

Notes
New Features: Added SharePoint 2013 support
 Added German, Russian and Swedish localization
Bugs Fixed: Fixed email notification from Password Expiration Alert Job
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Remarks
Information in this document may be outdated. Please, visit www.artfulbits.com for the latest product version.