Wednesday, May 23, 2012

removing password change requirement on Office365

By default, Office365 forces you to change your password every three months.  Should you want to keep Office365 from forcing you to change your password every three months, these instructions will help:

Follow steps 1 through 4 here:
http://www.christiano.ch/wordpress/2012/03/28/office-365connect-to-msonline-using-powershell/

This gets you to the powershell for your account.  Now, you need to enter the command to disable the password change requirement.

The command is:

Get-MsolUser | Set-MsolUser -PasswordNeverExpires $true

It looks like this:









It doesn't give you any confirmation, but it works.

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