Configure automatic password change settings

Use the Password Management Settings page of Central Administration to configure farm-level settings for automatic password changes. Farm administrators can configure the notification e-mail address that will be used to send all password change notification e-mails, as well as monitoring and scheduling options. Perform the steps in the following procedure to use Central Administration to configure automatic password change settings.

To configure automatic password change settings by using Central Administration

1. Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure is a farm administrator.
2. On the Central Administration Web site, click Security.
3. Under General Security, click Configure password change settings.
4. In the Notification E-Mail Address section of the Password Management Settings page, enter the e-mail address of an individual or group to be notified of any imminent password change or expiration events.
5. If automatic password change is not configured for a managed account, enter a numeric value in the Account Monitoring Process Settings section that indicates the number of days prior to password expiration that a notification will be sent to the e-mail address configured in the Notification E-Mail Address section.
6. In the Automatic Password Change Settings section, enter a numeric value that indicates the number of seconds that automatic password change will wait (after notifying services of a pending password change) before initiating the change. Enter a numeric value that indicates the number of times a password change will be attempted before the process stops.
7. Click OK.