With windows XP the users receive a prompt when they logged on letting them know that their password is about to expire. With Windows 7 all they see is the "Consider Changing Your Password" notification the notification area. Then if you click on the icon or balloon the icon disappears from the notification area until next logon. I am afraid that this will not be enough of a notification for our users. I would like to see the Logon Message that appears on windows XP to appear on windows 7. I have set the interactive logon: prompt user to change password before expiration to 14 days. Additionally, I have Always wait for the network at computer startup and logon enabled. What can I do to either get the prompt back or have the balloon stay open until they close it (drawing their attention to it) and have the change password window open when they do click on that icon in the notification area.

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I had the same issue. I was able to reproduce it, if I had the UAC turned off. When it was turned on, the notification would work. Then I called MS Support and it started working correctly whether UAC was turned on or off. Either way, I put together a VBS script that goes in to your GPO that displays a popup window telling the user their password expires in # days and that the user MUST click OK to dismiss. It goes in the GPO - User Config - Policies - Admin Templates - System - Logon - Run these programs at user logon. You will also need to add the folder location to IE Trusted Sites to avoid having a popup asking if it should run the script. PwExpChk.vbs '======================================== ' First, get the domain policy. '======================================== Dim oDomain Dim oUser Dim maxPwdAge Dim numDays Dim warningDays warningDays = 6 Set LoginInfo = CreateObject("ADSystemInfo") Set objUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & LoginInfo.UserName & "") strDomainDN = UCase(LoginInfo.DomainDNSName) strUserDN = LoginInfo.UserName Set oDomain = GetObject("LDAP://" & strDomainDN) Set maxPwdAge = oDomain.Get("maxPwdAge") '======================================== ' Calculate the number of days that are ' held in this value. '======================================== numDays = CCur((maxPwdAge.HighPart * 2 ^ 32) + _ maxPwdAge.LowPart) / CCur(-864000000000) 'WScript.Echo "Maximum Password Age: " & numDays '======================================== ' Determine the last time that the user ' changed his or her password. '======================================== Set oUser = GetObject("LDAP://" & strUserDN) '======================================== ' Add the number of days to the last time ' the password was set. '======================================== whenPasswordExpires = DateAdd("d", numDays, oUser.PasswordLastChanged) fromDate = Date daysLeft = DateDiff("d",fromDate,whenPasswordExpires) 'WScript.Echo "Password Last Changed: " & oUser.PasswordLastChanged if (daysLeft < warningDays) and (daysLeft > -1) then Msgbox "Password Expires in " & daysLeft & " day(s)" & " at " & whenPasswordExpires & chr(13) & chr(13) & "Once logged in, press CTRL-ALT-DEL and" & chr(13) & "select the 'Change a password' option", 0, "PASSWORD EXPIRATION WARNING!" End if '======================================== ' Clean up. '======================================== Set oUser = Nothing Set maxPwdAge = Nothing Set oDomain = Nothing