Using SharePoint Password Expiration

Virto SharePoint Password Expiration can be used either as a solution or as a web part.

Note: only site administrator has access to component settings.

If you are going to use it as a solution, go to “Site Collection Administration – Virto Password Expiration Settings”.

Virto Password Expiration settings opened from Site Collection Administration in SharePoint

First of all you need to define domain settings.

Domain settings section in the Virto Password Expiration solution configuration

Then define SMTP settings for outgoing e-mail notifications. Use default or custom settings and check the settings with test e-mail.

SMTP settings for outgoing email notifications with a test email option

If you define custom SMTP settings, define server, port, account login, password, the name of notification and the e-mail box it will be sent from.

Custom SMTP fields for server, port, login, password and sender email address

Then you need to define schedule for notifications that will be sent to users. The notification is sent for three times and then sent every single day before the date of expiration. When it will be sent - you need to decide.

Define the amount of days before the first notification;
Define the amount of days before second notification;
Define amount of days before the daily notification.

Then define the time when it is preferred to send notification (this is the time afterwhich the alerts will be sent).

Notification schedule settings defining days before expiry and the send time

You can add the list of AD users that will not receive the notifications (for instance, administrators or any other users).

List of excluded AD users who will not receive password expiration notifications

Enter the subject of e-mail notification displayed for recipients and use tags to construct the message text of the notification.

Email subject field and message body built with tags for the expiration notification

If you need to send copy of notification, enter the e-mail to send it to. If there is more than one e-mail, use commas to separate them.

Field for entering comma-separated email addresses to receive a copy of the notification

Moreover you can enable client side notification, and every SharePoint user logged in to the site throughout AD will see the pop-up alert on the top of every page of SharePoint site.

Note: the option is available only for SharePoint 2012 users.

Click “Save” to save the settings.

Now when the password expiration date is coming, users will receive e-mail notifications.