Change Password/iisadmpwd

[Chris]

Is it possible to use an iisadmpwd virtual directory to allow
sharepoint users to change an expired password? It's a Windows 2003
Server, IIS 6.0 install running Sharepoint 2.0. I am not (officially)
responsible for the sharepoint install, but have been asked to provide
a way to allow our admins to use the "user must change password at
next login" option when setting up new client accounts. From what
I've read this past week, iisadmpwd seems to be the best soltion. As
it is now, I go to:

https://www.ourspsite.com/iisadmpwd/aexp3.asp

I get the right page and can successfully change my password *if* I'm
using a non-expired account - otherwise they get permission denied.
Truth is I'm no IIS guru either, but I've read that OWA allows this
feature and even provides an auto-redirect if it detects an expired
account. Do I need to allow anonymous users access to the page/asp
files?

[Mike Walsh [MVP]]

> It's a Windows 2003 Server, IIS 6.0 install running Sharepoint 2.0

A few problems with this

a) the usual installation before installing WSS or SPS 2003 is to install
the "Application Server" role for the server (which *includes* IIS 6.0)
rather than just installing IIS 6.0.

maybe there is something missing because of this.

b) there is no such thing as "Sharepoint 2.0"

take your pick between SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (v2 of SPS) and Windows
SharePoint Services (formerly v2 of SharePoint Team Services) which only
Microsoft "officially" call 2.0.

Please let us know which one you have installed and how exactly the "IIS 6.0
install" went and with which parameters if any.

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland
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[Chris]

Thank you for your reply. As it turns out, I gave one other
incomplete piece of info - in addition to "change pw at next login"
users, all other domain users were also being denied. Only admins
could get in. I enabled anonymous access to the iisadmpwd vd and now
everything seems to work for everyone. This seems entirely
reasonable, although I have read many, many docs on this and if
anonymous access thing was mentioned, I must have missed it.

FYI, it's Sharepoint Portal Services latest version, which the project
manager is calling SP 2.0 (probably 2003). Sorry about the confusion
- I've just been learning about it this past week. Probably didn't
matter to my question anyway since I'm just browsing directly to the
iisadmpwd files. Howver, I have read that OWA will redirect an
expired password to the correct iisadmpwd url - if this functionality
is available elsewhere I'd be interested to know (although as it is
now the plan is to just give out the full \iisadmpwd\aexp3.asp url,
which should be ok too).