posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 1:39 PM
by
Jonathan Hodgson
Password Expired troubleshooting
Processes tend to run under secured accounts and most companies enforce password policies with the aim that only a small number of trusted people will know the textual passwords which tend to be changed at regular intervals.
All is well, until one day your scheduled job process starts to fail - well one common problem is password has expired.
If you see this error when checking if the account/password still works using RunAs from the command prompt:
1327: Logon failure: user account restriction. Possible reasons are blank passwords not allowed, logon hour restrictions, or a policy restriction has been enforced.
Then grab these two scripts to check if the password has expired: