How to exprie ALL acct. passwords?

We are running Windows 2003 Servers as our domain controllers and about 5000
users. What we want to do is expire EVERYONE'S network acct. and make them
change their passwords at the end of this week (Friday). Any ideas on an
easy way to do this?


Thanks in advance,


Clayton

Set all the user accounts to "User must change password on next login"?

Be careful what you do,.. you can make a huge mess really fast (like
expiring Service Account Passwords and make all the services crash).


"Clayton Sutton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> We are running Windows 2003 Servers as our domain controllers and about
5000
> users. What we want to do is expire EVERYONE'S network acct. and make
them
> change their passwords at the end of this week (Friday). Any ideas on an
> easy way to do this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Clayton
>
>

Phillip has the write answer as far as changing their passwords but I don't
think you really want their accounts to expire. I would suggest however that
you communicate this to users well ahead of time, explain any new password
policy such as password complexity with specific examples of what is
required, and force changes to only part of the users at a time for maybe a
week. If you do it all at once and 5 percent of the users have a problem
then be prepared for your support to hande 250 extra calls that day. ---
Steve


"Clayton Sutton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> We are running Windows 2003 Servers as our domain controllers and about
> 5000 users. What we want to do is expire EVERYONE'S network acct. and
> make them change their passwords at the end of this week (Friday). Any
> ideas on an easy way to do this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Clayton
>

Even if you can do it, its not a great idea. First of all, you really don't
want 5,000 users having to change their passwords at one time. This could
cause traffic problems. Secondly, with 5,000 users, I can personally
guarantee that you will be receiving at least 500 support calls the next
day. This will be despite having printed explicit (with pictures)
instructions on what you are doing.....

Map out a strategy that

1) expires users in smaller groups over a couple of weeks.
2) Documents the changes, why it is being done and what they have to do.
3) Get the documentation to them at least a week prior to password
expiration.
4) if possible, have one on ones with each group just before it takes
effect. Believe me, face to face will reduce your support calls (Note that I
didn't say *eliminate* them).

--
Regards,
Hank Arnold

"Clayton Sutton" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> We are running Windows 2003 Servers as our domain controllers and about
> 5000 users. What we want to do is expire EVERYONE'S network acct. and
> make them change their passwords at the end of this week (Friday). Any
> ideas on an easy way to do this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
> Clayton
>