Jesper

Makes a really good argument for reading what is in the dialogs, doesn't it?

I do sort of agree though. I don't really like this new design. The task bar
is WAY overloaded with crap that you don't care about. I'm running OneCare
right now and it is driving me up a wall telling me every three minutes that
it has set its firewall to restricted mode because it discovered a new
network, when in reality, it just dropped the wireless connection for me,
again.

"Detlev Rackow" wrote:

> Jesper schrieb:
> > No, nothing built in, but I don't understand the exact problem. If the
> > password has expired they will still be forced to change it at logon. The
> > reminder is just for when the password has not expired.
> >
> > I also do not understand what this has to do with account lockout.
> >
> Jesper, this can actually create a lockout-problem, because the password
> does not expire on a given day, but on a given second. If the user logs
> in at i.e. 7:30 am, and the password expires at 8:20 am, he will lose
> access to some programs which require windows authentification, like OE
> with Exchange, ISA-proxyservers, SQL-Servers etc.
>
> Since I worked 5 years in end-user support, I have seen a lot of users
> effectively locked out by this, especially if they reacted wrong and
> tried just to force their way into these applications by reentering
> their password into the authentification-popup of IE.
>
> Regards,
>
> Detlev
>