Password Expiration Message Is Not Displayed with GPO Logon Script Running in Synchronous Mode (288234)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
This article was previously published under Q288234 SYMPTOMS
If you enable synchronous processing of logon scripts in a Group Policy object (GPO), or even in a Local Computer policy, the "Your password expires in n days" message is not displayed.
CAUSE
Synchronous processing of login scripts requires Windows to switch to the user desktop, because a script may start a program that requires user input.
RESOLUTIONTo resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Date Time Version Size File name
--------------------------------------------------
3/5/2001 02:12p 5.0.2195.3329 331,536 Msgina.dll
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, disable synchronous processing of logons scripts.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 9/26/2005 |
---|
Keywords: | kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbfix kbSecurity kbWin2000PreSP3Fix kbWin2000sp3fix KB288234 |
---|
|