Active Directory user password expiration date .NET/OU Group Policy
Let me start with http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323750 which contains Visual Basic and VBScript examples and http://www.anitkb.com/2010/03/how-to-implement-active-directory.html which outlines how the maxPwdAge OU setting impacts computers, not users. It also has a comment pointing to AloInfo.exe as a tool from MS that can be used to get password ages.
Here is the example:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.DirectoryServices;
namespace LDAP
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
string domainAndUsername = string.Empty;
string domain = string.Empty;
string userName = string.Empty;
string passWord = string.Empty;
AuthenticationTypes at = AuthenticationTypes.Anonymous;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
domain = @"LDAP://w.x.y.z";
domainAndUsername = @"LDAP://w.x.y.z/cn=Lawrence E."+
" Smithmier\, Jr.,cn=Users,dc=corp,"+
"dc=productiveedge,dc=com";
userName = "Administrator";
passWord = "xxxpasswordxxx";
at = AuthenticationTypes.Secure;
DirectoryEntry entry = new DirectoryEntry(
domain, userName, passWord, at);
DirectorySearcher mySearcher = new DirectorySearcher(entry);
SearchResultCollection results;
string filter = "maxPwdAge=*";
mySearcher.Filter = filter;
results = mySearcher.FindAll();
long maxDays = 0;
if(results.Count>=1)
{
Int64 maxPwdAge=(Int64)results[0].Properties["maxPwdAge"][0];
maxDays = maxPwdAge/-864000000000;
}
DirectoryEntry entryUser = new DirectoryEntry(
domainAndUsername, userName, passWord, at);
mySearcher = new DirectorySearcher(entryUser);
results = mySearcher.FindAll();
long daysLeft=0;
if (results.Count >= 1)
{
var lastChanged = results[0].Properties["pwdLastSet"][0];
daysLeft = maxDays - DateTime.Today.Subtract(
DateTime.FromFileTime((long)lastChanged)).Days;
}
Console.WriteLine(
String.Format("You must change your password within"+
" {0} days"
, daysLeft));
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
The following code worked for me to get the password expiration date on both domain and local user accounts:
public static DateTime GetPasswordExpirationDate(string userId, string domainOrMachineName)
{
using (var userEntry = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + domainOrMachineName + '/' + userId + ",user"))
{
return (DateTime)userEntry.InvokeGet("PasswordExpirationDate");
}
}