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- Learn How to Calculate and Display a User's Password Expiration Date

Scripter's Toolkit
- Stored Procedure Can Protect Your T-SQL Objects from Deletion

Info to Go

New & Improved
- Go from 0 to 60 on the Scripting Super Highway

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:: **** Perspectives ****
by Karen Bemowski, kbemowski@windowsitpro.com

Learn How to Calculate and Display a User's Password Expiration Date
The question "How can I find out the date and time a user's Active
Directory (AD) domain password expires?" isn't a simple one to answer. You
must first determine
- Whether the user's password expires. If it doesn't expire, you don't
need to calculate an expiration date.
- How long the password can be used before it expires. If the domain
doesn't specify a maximum password age, you don't need to calculate an
expiration date.
- The date and time the user's password was last set. If the password
hasn't been set, you can't calculate an expiration date.

Bill Stewart explains how to write code that makes these determinations
in the Rem article "Determining the Expiration of AD Domain Passwords"
( http://pentonmedia.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=586A5:6B7D3383C3CE944409111DEFC8E499BF )
He incorporates this code into VBScript and JScript scripts that you can use
to calculate and display a user's password expiration date.
I've opened up this article for public viewing so that you can read it and
download its code. I also opened up the article "Using a Logon to Determine a
Distinguished Name"
( http://pentonmedia.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=586A4:6B7D3383C3CE944409111DEFC8E499BF )
that Bill references.
"Determining the Expiration of AD Domain Passwords" and "Using a Logon to
Determine a Distinguished Name" will only be open for public viewing through
June 16, so don't delay checking out these articles. If you enjoy reading
them, you can get more of this type of content by subscribing to Scripting
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:: **** Scripter's Toolkit ****

Stored Procedure Can Protect Your T-SQL Objects from Deletion
If you've ever had a T-SQL stored object accidentally deleted by someone
because it was marked as a user object, you'll probably be interested in
sp_markAllMasterDBasSystem. This stored procedure helps protect the T-SQL
objects you create by marking them as system objects. To find out more about
sp_markAllMasterDBasSystem, take a look at the Reader to Reader article
"Protect Your T-SQL Objects from Deletion" on the SQL Server Magazine Web
site at http://pentonmedia.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=586A3:6B7D3383C3CE944409111DEFC8E499BF .

:: **** Info to Go ****

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:: **** New & Improved ****

Go from 0 to 60 on the Scripting Super Highway
Sams Publishing has released the second edition of "VBScript, WMI,
and ADSI Unleashed" by Don Jones. This book is for Windows administrators
who want to learn how to use VBScript to automate tasks and simplify their
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