This web part is used for quick and simple resolving of situations when a user forgets his password or the password is expired according to password security policy. If there is no such a tool, user must contact his AD administrator every time he needs to change the password.
Virto SharePoint Password Reset and Recovery Web Part is added to the SharePoint by administrator who adjusts the component. You can find detailed information about the web part adjustment in Installation and User Guide. Besides the ability to add Web Part to the SharePoint site page, administrator can also add it to any page of other web-portal with the help of additional ASP.NET source code supplied with the component.
Any user authorized on the SharePoint site with AD login (including cases of remote access to the portal) can request a configuration of new password. And this does not mean that he can change the configuration of the web part.
There also can be a situation when user cannot be authorized on the SharePoint site, but needs to enter it. For such cases the web part can be installed on a special WSS SharePoint site with anonymous access. This will help users without ability to logon to SharePoint site to reset their password.
There are two ways of working with passwords – request a new password on the site online or by email. According to security policy in the first case before the password changing, user will be offered to answer some security questions (from one to three). Security questions are set by system administrator and the values are taken from corresponding fields of AD profile (for instance, date of birth, mobile phone and etc.).
Form Based authentication is included into the list of features of Virto SharePoint Password Reset and Recovery Web Part.