Has your Microsoft 365 account ever been locked out due to an expired password? This can be a frustrating experience, particularly when you are in the midst of handling high priority projects. No need to worry! We've crafted an easy guide on how to get the password expiry report and swiftly change passwords before expiry to avoid account lockouts.
AdminDroid’s Microsoft 365 password reports offer a diverse range of details related to user passwords. This empowers you to obtain password expiration date of Microsoft 365 users, ensuring robust security and compliance in your organization.
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Receive prompt notifications when Microsoft 365 users sign-in with expired passwords and safeguard your organization against any potential threats.
Implement periodic review and update the list of admins with never expire passwords to align with organization security policies.
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This error occurs when your account password expired due to password expiration policy of your organization.
This error occurs when the user connects Graph PowerShell module without required permissions.
Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "User.ReadWrite.All","Group.ReadWrite.All"This error occurs when you run cmdlets without installing respective packages in PowerShell.
Install-Module Microsoft.Graph.BetaThis error occurs when users try to reset their password, when the self-service password reset is disabled in your organization.
This error occurs when you enter an incorrect domain ID or incomplete domain ID like ‘onmicrosoft.com’.
Get-MgDomain -DomainID "<Domain name>" | select -Property Id, PasswordValidityPeriodInDaysBy default, passwords are set to never expire in all Microsoft 365 organizations. However, it is advisable to change passwords regularly to bypass account compromises.
If password expiration policy is configured with certain number of days, users' passwords will expire based on their individual last password change dates.
Also, admins must note that Microsoft Entra ID has default password policies to ensure strong and complex passwords, when users reset their passwords. Admins cannot modify these default policies. However, they can ban custom passwords in Microsoft 365 to restrict users from using common passwords like company name, branch name, department name, etc.
AdminDroid's 'Password Policy' report makes it easy for admins to track the validity days configured using the password expiration policy.
An expired password may lead to an account lockout in Microsoft 365, and you cannot access your account.
Note: Users can reset their own passwords using the above method only if your organization has enabled SSPR (Self Service Password Reset) for all users.
Admins can enable self-service password reset (SSPR) for users by following the steps below.
Also, it is essential to monitor the user’s password changes to ensure only the required user’s password is modified, preventing any unusual password changes and detect password spray attacks in your organization.
With AdminDroid's 'User Password Changes' report, you can keep an eye on user password changes when their passwords expire in your organization.
With AdminDroid Advanced Alerting, you can configure a threshold limit for password change activities and receive real-time notifications whenever unusual user password modifications occur in the organization.
Setting up password expiration notifications in Microsoft 365 can prompt users to update their passwords before facing account lockouts.
Microsoft no longer supports password expiration notifications. Finding a workaround using the native solution is complicated and requires technical expertise. Also, it involves manual application addition, API permission assignment, certificate creation, client secret management, and script execution.
AdminDroid’s Quick schedule feature let admins to generate a weekly schedule, enabling them to effectively send password expiry notification to Microsoft 365 users.
This report includes user’s details such as UPN, Office 365 password expiration date, password expiration duration, last password change date, user sign-in status, license status, etc.
Password expiration policy would be useful to improve the security of Microsoft 365 users’ accounts. However, organizations may need some crucial accounts with set passwords to never expire status.
You can set password to never expire in Microsoft 365 for single user using the below Graph PowerShell cmdlet:
Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "User.ReadWrite.All", "Group.ReadWrite.All"
Update-MgUser -UserId <user ID> -PasswordPolicies DisablePasswordExpirationAlso, it is equally important to monitor accounts with passwords set to never expire, ensuring the security of these crucial accounts.
You can get all the users with password set to never expire using the below PowerShell cmdlet:
Get-MgUser -All -Property UserPrincipalName, PasswordPolicies | Select-Object UserprincipalName,@{N="PasswordNeverExpires"; E={$_.PasswordPolicies -contains "DisablePasswordExpiration"}}However, Graph PowerShell methods require a technical understanding to get in-depth details of the users’ password expiry statuses and users with never expire passwords.
With AdminDroid’s 'Passwords Never Expire Users' report, you can effectively verify that only the approved and privileged users are configured with never expired passwords.
PRO TIP: You can directly email any of the reports in the required format from the report page itself, by clicking the mail icon (✉).
Password expiry date in Microsoft 365 is not directly accessible since it depends on the number of days configured in the domain password policy. Also, the countdown to password expiration starts from the last time a user changed their password. Each user may have a different expiration date based on their individual password change history.
Therefore, to check the password expiration date in Office 365, manual calculation is required by comparing the days in the password expiration policy with the individual user's last password change date.
You can get password validity period of your organization’s password policy using the below PowerShell cmdlet.
Get-MgDomain -DomainID "<Domain name>" | select -Property Id, PasswordValidityPeriodInDaysYou can find last password changed date in Office 365 using the Graph PowerShell cmdlet below.
Get-MgUser -All -Property DisplayName,lastPasswordChangeDateTime | select DisplayName,lastPasswordChangeDateTimeAdditionally, you can check the leaked credential report in Microsoft Entra ID to validate the current security measures of user account passwords. It also helps you to identify and address any potential vulnerabilities or compromised credentials promptly.
Using the 'Users with Password Expiry' report, you can effortlessly find the accurate password expiration date of Microsoft 365 users without any manual calculation.
This report includes other necessary details such as the user’s last password changed date, password expiry status, etc.
PRO TIP: You can sort the report data in ascending or descending order by simply clicking the column heading. Here, you can click on 'Password Expiry Date' to arrange the data in ascending order to identify the users with earliest password expiration date.
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