SharePoint Password Change- Allow user to change their own password in a SharePoint portal site without site administrator intervention or IIS expiration pages.
- Warn user with message in web part before his/her password expires, prompting the user to change password.
- A "Change Password" link added in welcome menu to direct to Password Change page
SharePoint Password Change Tutorial
SharePoint Password Change allows AD users or local users to change their own passwords without site administrator intervention
Password Change Page
You can change password by clicking "Change Password" on welcome menu of your current site to get to the password change page.
Password change page is as following.
Enter your current password, new password and confirm new password in the text box, and click Change Password.
After the password is changed successfully, a message will notify user.
After the password has been successfully changed, you must input new password if you want to get to other pages.
Password Change Web Part
SharePoint Password Change provides another method to change password. You can add password change web part on any page you want to, and change password in the web part. (Please refer to the end of this tutorial to learn how to add the web part)
Following is the password change web part which has been successfully added on the page.
Password Expire Warning Web Part
It's also provided with SharePoint Password Change. It can warn you with a message on web pages before your password expire, prompting you to change password.
Add Password Expire Warning web part on any page you want to.
Click the web part menu, and "Modify Share Web Part".
Customize warning days and input password change URL in the configuration part, then click OK to exit. "Warning days" means how many days before password expires it will warn you. "Password change url" is the password change page URL. If you click the link "Click here to change your password" on the page on which password expire web part is added, you will directly get to the password change page.
Click OK, and exit from the current setting page.
When you log on the page, the web part will show a warning message and a link. You can click the link to go to the change password page.
How to Add Password Change Web Part and Password Expire Warning Web Part
Go to the page you want to add Web part on, click Site Actions on the top of the page, and click Edit Page. In the web part zone, click Add a Web part.
Select Password Change Web Part or Expire Warning Web Part in the dialog, and click Add.
