We are using Exchange OWA 2010 SP3. When a user with an expired password tries to log in, they are told that the username or password is invalid:
According to this Technet blog setting a registry key and restarting IIS should fix it:
- On the Client Access Server (CAS), click Start > Run and type regedit.exe and click OK.
- Navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange OWA.
- Right click the MSExchange OWA key and click New > DWord (32-bit).
- The DWORD value name is ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled and set the value to 1. Note: The values accepted are 1 (or any non-zero value) for "Enabled" or 0 or blank / not present for "Disabled"
- After you configure this DWORD value, you must reset IIS. The recommended method to reset IIS is to use IISReset /noforce from a command prompt.
This is how it is currently set in my server:
There are no spaces after ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled, it is set to 1 etc.
After that I run IISreset /noforce from an elevated command prompt. I even rebooted the server. But when a user with an expired password tries to login he is still greeted with the 'username or password is wrong' error message.
I also looked in group policy to verify the minimum password age is set to zero.
We have a Windows 2012 domain controller.
btw: It has worked before, but only a couple of days earlier this year.
Windows event log on the Exchange server registers the following failure:
Failure Information:
Failure Reason: The specified account's password has expired.
Status: 0xC0000224
Sub Status: 0x0