I have a quick question and I apologize if this is not in the correct newsgroup. If it is not, please let me know where I should put this and I will make the correction. We use Exchange 2003 and the majorioty of our users use OWA 2003 to access thier e-mail. For many of them, this is thier only way of logging in (they share computers with other people) and about a year or so ago, they stopped getting password expiration notifications and we have a lot of user's passwords expiring without them knowing. I looked into this and it seems to be an IIS issue. Accord to kb article 297121 I should run the asdutil.vbs script to set the passwordchangeflags setting to 1. I checked the current default setting and it is currently 6. KB article 920723 states that 6 is the default setting for IIS 6.0 (which we are running on our front end-servers) and that setting means that "Password changing and password expiration notification is disabled". The last part of that statement seems to be true but the first part is not. Our users CAN change thier AD password through OWA. Here are my questions: What does that "6" setting really mean? Our users can change thier AD passwords but they are not getting the notifications. What does the suggested "1" setting really mean? What impact could that have on my Exchange servers? (I don't think it will have a major impact, I just other people's experience and opinion before I make the change, if I make it at all) If I do make the change, what do I need to do to have the change reflected? Do I need to stop and restart IIS? Reboot my exchange front end servers? Thank you for any and all help and guidance that you can provide.
