Send your SharePoint users E-mail notifications before their password expires.

What Does It Do?

The Password Expiration Web Part allows Active Directory users to receive an email notification before their password expires, prompting users to change their password.

Password Expiration Web Part vs. SharePoint Base Functionality	SharePoint Out-of-the-Box	Bamboo Password Expiration
Emails are sent to users before their password expires		•
Forces users to change their password by re-directing them to a Password Change page		•
Works with Active Directory accounts		•
IT Administrator can easily customize email notifications		•
Use in combination with Bamboo Password Change and Password Reset Web Part to greatly reduce IT burden of resetting passwords.		•
AJAX Web Part technology eliminates annoying post backs and enhances usability		•

How Does It Work?

The Bamboo Password Expiration Web Part monitors your SharePoint users� account expiration dates and sends out a notification email message before the account expiration date. A web part also can be installed in the portal login page where it will warn the user about the impending password expiration date. The IT administrator can also force the users to change their password within the grace period by re-directing them to a Password Change page (See our Password Change Web Part for self-service password change).

Why Did We Build It?

Most organizations that use SharePoint also leverage Active Directory user account management system. Part of a good security practice is to enforcing password policies such as creating a strong password and password expiration. However, this password expiration policy also causes your IT Administration to spend countless support hours helping your SharePoint users reset their expired passwords. Our Password Expiration Web Part allows SharePoint users to proactively change their password before it expires.

System Requirements:

Release Notes:

September 2008	Release 1.2
November 2007	Release 1.1
June 2007	Release 1.0.11
June 2007	Release 1.0
	View our release note here: http://store.bamboosolutions.com/kb/article.aspx?id=10433

Download Instructions:
To purchase the web part or download the trial software, please add the appropriate product from the table below into your shopping cart and proceed through the check out process. You will have to register and create an account in the storefront so that we can send you the download email. There are no payment, shipping charges, or taxes on the trial download. Once you receive our email, you should be able to download and install the software within minutes. Make sure you download and refer to the application notes for detailed installation instructions.

Installation Instructions:
Complete installation instructions and an usage guide for this web part are included in the Application Notes below. Please make sure you download and read them prior to installing the web part. In addition to the Application Notes, potential installation problems are also documented in our Web Part Deployment and Security FAQ, which can be downloaded here.

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Support Instructions:
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Knowledge Base Articles:

	Blog Posts and User Forums Password Expiration Web Part Forum   Self Service User Management Solutions and SharePoint Extranets (Part 2/3)   Complete Password Management Cycle for SharePoint		Product Documentation   Password Expiration Web Part Application Notes Online   Screencasts & Featurecasts Sign up for a FREE Bamboo Webinar Customer Use Cases U.S. Army   Submit your use case
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Recent Password Expiration Web Part - Release 1.2 Forum Posts

Users being redirected to change password when their password is not due for a change (0 replies) - Our main SharePoint page serves as a portal for our users. It is their default home page in IE. When we initially purchased and setup the Password Expiration Web Part, we put an instance of it on the home... Latest post by jroberts@dot.ga.gov, 7/2/2009 6:31:02 PM Issue with ampersand in email notification configuration (4 replies) - Getting an error when trying to start notification: Message: An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line 6, position 35. Here's the offending line:       <organizational-unit>Users... Latest post by Jeremy Minich, 6/18/2009 3:14:05 PM authentication issue (1 replies) - I submitted this issue to support, but was wondering if anyone else is having this issue. Where the PW Expiration Web Part is unable to derive the User Logon Name (pre-Windows 2000) of the domain... Latest post by amellott, 5/18/2009 1:20:44 PM Supported options to format notificaiton emails? (1 replies) - Hi! I was wondering what tags, code, options are supported to format the notification email that the add-on provides. My first desire is to include the person be mailed by first name.  Not sure... Latest post by Jeremy Minich, 5/4/2009 1:24:01 PM Expiration Message in web part displays days + date (6 replies) - Hello, The expiration web part pisplays the days remaining and date expiring in the form, 27 10/2/09 00:00. It would be neater if we could have it display just the days as in the product literature. Any... Latest post by Jeremy Minich, 3/24/2009 8:19:29 AM

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