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SEPM Password Expiration

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 3 comments
Eck's picture
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I am running MR1 at several clients and my typical convention is to change the default authentication mechanism for SEPM to authenticate to our AD Domain.  However, SEPM still reports that a password has expired and requests that you change it after the 60 day period.  The problem (or annoyance) is that this should, IMO, follow the domain password policy, not SEPM's own.
 
I haven't tried to change the password to something different to see if it actually breaks, changes the domain account password in AD, etc. which could lead to a complete inability to login to SEPM.
 
My first question:  Is there a way to turn password expiration off in SEPM?  And my follow-up is: Does anyone know how it would react if you did change the password at the prompt when you're using domain authentication?
 
Haven't had an opportunity to upgrade anyone to MR2 yet so don't know if anything changed in this area under the radar.
 
Thanks!

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ImurPappy's picture
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2008
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This is an annoying feature.  Let us control when to change the password.
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2008
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I've had a case open about this for a while and thought that this bug/defect would be corrected in MR2 - it was not.  Support has told me it is targeted for MR3. 
 
I haven't tried changing the password to see what breaks.
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2008
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