You're reading from Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition Design, deploy, and protect Active Directory Domain Services for Windows Server 2022

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070393

Length 780 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2022

3. Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2022

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services – Part 01

12. Active Directory Services – Part 02

13. Active Directory Certificate Services

14. Active Directory Federation Services

15. Active Directory Rights Management Services

16. Active Directory Security Best Practices

17. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

18. Hybrid Identity

19. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Users with the Password Never Expires setting

In an Active Directory environment, we use password policies to enforce users to follow complexity standards and other best practices related to passwords. Users should use complex passwords and should update their passwords at regular intervals. This is one of the basic requirements of identity protection. However, if the user account has the Password Never Expires setting enabled, the user will not be forced to update the passwords according to the password policy.

We can find Active Directory user accounts that have the Password Never Expires setting enabled by using the following PowerShell commands:

Get-ADUser -Filter  {passwordNeverExpires -eq $true -and Enabled -eq $true } -Properties * | Select samAccountName,GivenName,Surname

In the preceding command, I am looking for the passwordNeverExpires attribute value and if it's set to true, it means the setting is enabled. At the same time, I also checked if the user...