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Wouldn't that be a job for a group policy object?
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Wouldn't that be a job for a group policy object?

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does anyone know of a free script, or a fee-based product to query AD and actively email a responsible party that a user account is about to expire in x number of days?<br />
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Goal is to be able to proactively notify dept managers that their contractor's user account is about to expire beofre the user gets locked out and and they have to contact IT to re-enable it. &nbsp;we set all contractor accounts to expire on or about the last day of the contractors work agreement. &nbsp;these typically get extended, but the hiring manager does not notify IT, therefore the account expires and has to be re-enabled for another 30 period, for example.
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does anyone know of a free script, or a fee-based product to query AD and actively email a responsible party that a user account is about to expire in x number of days?

Goal is to be able to proactively notify dept managers that their contractor's user account is about to expire beofre the user gets locked out and and they have to contact IT to re-enable it.  we set all contractor accounts to expire on or about the last day of the contractors work agreement.  these typically get extended, but the hiring manager does not notify IT, therefore the account expires and has to be re-enabled for another 30 period, for example.

script to query AD and actively email a responsible party that a user account is about to expire

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