PasswordNotify / News: Recent posts

Fixed bug where if both the admin and user were selected to receive
an email alert with an LDAP profile, only the user would receive the alert.

PasswordNotify 1.1 Beta 1 is now available as Perl scripts. These two pieces are fit for running under Linux or other perl oriented OS.

The ConfigurePasswordNotify.pl utility look almost the same as the Windows and the Windows Service piece is a now a simpler piece of code that can be called daily from cron. It shares the exact same feature set as the Windows product.

This version adds the new consept of "server type" and is capable of check for account expiration status on both ActiveDirectory and OpenLDAP servers.

Fixed the issue of the first level notification often not being notified.

Added a major new feature, profiles. This allows you to uniquely customize messages to specific groups of users as well check multiple domains, and general have a high degree of flexibility.

I have yet to receive any significant feedback on the packages core functionality and this is a concern of mine. So, if you are using the package please let me know. I am holding off on evangelizing the package until I hear good things from the user community, or at least fix any major complaints.... read more

New to this release.

Expanded LDAP search beyond the 'users' container. Now searches all sub containers of your
domain for user accounts
Added ability to restrict notifications to only a specified Windows Group.

Still need more feedback from the field as to if and how it is working, what issues are being encountered, what improvments you would like to see.

rondorn@gmail.com

This release has many improvements.

The improvements mainly are designed to make the tool easier to configure. It is now doing a lot of validity checking to see if a bad LDAP server, SMTP server, user name, password, or domain has been entered. If these cases are detected it will notify with a meaningful error message at the time of configuration. At least that's the theory. Here are the changes:

Added lots of validation to the save routine of ConfigurePasswordNotify
Added lots of validation to the load routine of PasswordNotify
Added access the PasswordNotify log through the file menu of ConfigurePasswordNotify
Fixed bug in ConfigurePasswordNotify where certain field changes would not active save button
Display detailed error message if service does not startup from ConfigurePasswordNotify
Minor UI Changes

This release does not fix any glaring bugs (unlike the last release..sorry) but does add functionality and ease installation.

One of the changes made that will hopefully ease testing is the ability to send the emails to the admin user only. If you want to just test the software without annoying users if bugs are encountered, just set the preference to "Admin Only" and the admin address provided will be the only one to receive the email.... read more

If you have download PassworkNotify and are using it, or attempting to use it, I need to hear from you!!

Is it working in your environment?
Are you having any issues?
Are you running Exchange or some other mail package?

So far I am using the tool successfully in my environment, that includes Exchange. I am wonder if the location I am pulling the email address from is correct in all cases, or only in the case of running Exchange. I also need to be sure that people with multiple Domain can still find this tool useful or if I need to expand my functionality in latter versions??... read more

Fix bug where LDAP query would not use preference and LDAP quesy would fail. If you have install 0.90 you MUST re-install with 0.90a!!

PasswordNotify 0.9 Beta has been released.

This software runs as a Windows Service and provides Windows Administrators a method of notifying users via email of when thier passwords are about to expire.