Jiji Ad Password Expiration Notification

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JiJi Technologies, the global leaders who are already in the vanguard in systems and security solutions for Active Directory and Group Policy based environment is proud to announce the launching of one more product in their product range for commercial availability namely JiJi Password Expiration Notification.

Description
JiJi Password Expiration Notification is a simple tool to notify users, managers and administrators through e-mail before their password and account expires. Administrator can receive the summary report to the specific email ids. Administrator can define the notification task for any specified target (Domain, an OU, Group, Users).

Features
1. Proactive password and account expiration auditing solution for Active Directory.
2. Useful for VPN users, Outlook Web Access (OWA) users, Mac / Linux Users, File share users, Service accounts
3. Automatically checks the AD daily and send password and account expiry status message and report
4. Send Custom Email Notifications to Users, Managers and Admins
5. Send Password expiry warning message ...
... to users
6. Send Password Expiration Notification to Manager
7. Send Password Expiration Summary Report to Admins Daily
8. Calculates Password Expiry Date of Users depends on the Domain Policy and Windows 2008 Fine Grained Password Policy
9. View Password and Account Expiration Report with Password Expire Date, Account Expire Date, MaxPasswordAge (Maximum Password Age)
10. Supports Windows 7, Windows 2008 systems.
11. General Settings
12. Password Expiration Settings
13. This settings helps the administrator to filter the users. Here the administrator can filter the users depends upon the following four conditions
1. Ignore password never expires users,
2. Ignore users whose password must change at next logon,
3. Ignore users who does not have mail id,
4. Ignore password expired users.

Here administrator can specify email ids to send summary report.

14. Mail Server Configuration Settings
Using this interface administrator can configure mail server to send e-mails. After entering the details, administrator should click the 'Test Settings' button to verify the mail server settings. If the test results shows success the administrator can proceed the next step.

Click "Configure Mail Server" button in the JiJi Password Expiration Notification.
How to configure the mail body with the predefined Macros explained below

The list of Custom Macros that can be used in the mail content are,
• [PASSWORDEXPIRATIONDATE]
• [ACCOUNTEXPIRATIONDATE]
• [SOONTOEXPIREPASSWORD]
• [SOONTOEXPIREACCOUNT]
• [MANAGERNAME]
• [FIRSTNAME]
• [LASTNAME]
and you can use all the Active Directory attribute values in the mail content using the Macro
[ATTRIBUTENAME]
________________________________________

For example,
Consider the User "XXXXX", he/she reset the password on 1st Oct and Maximum password age is 25 days and today is 20th Oct.

If the mail body is,

Dear [displayname],
You have reset the password on [pwdlastset]. Your password is going in [soontoexpirepassword]. Your password expiration date is [passwordexpirationdate]. Please change your password before [passwordexpirationdate].

Then the resolved mail body will be,

Dear XXXXX,
You have reset the password on 1st Oct. Your password is going in 5 days. Your password expiration date is 25th Oct. Please change your password before 25th Oct.
________________________________________
You can apply the Macros by typing yourself and can import by clicking the "Macros..." button. Before clicking the button make sure that where to import the Macro by clicking in the Mail subject or mail body.

Editing Mail Content:
Administrator can configure the mail subject and the content with the predefined Macros. Click "Edit Mail" to view / edit the mail subject and body. You can either use HTML or Plain text as mail content.

Benefits

1. Administrators enjoy the privilege of assigning segregated password/account expiry policies for specific scope of users.
2. Administrators can send custom email notifications to specific scope of users.
3. Administrators can easily migrate the password/account expiration settings from one machine to the other.
4. Improves the productivity of employees.
For more info, visit us at
http://www.jijitechnologies.com/jiji-password-expiration-notification.aspx
Pricing and Availability:
For evaluation, JiJi Active Directory Management Tool is offered for 30 days trial. You can download the evaluation version from:
http://www.jijitechnologies.com/jiji-password-expiration-notification-download-trial.aspx