Active Directory – Sending an email to users if their password will expire soon

You can schedule a Runbook in System Center 2016 Orchestrator to automatically notify your users before their passwords expire.

The business process of this workflow is defined in the following diagram:

Getting ready

To get ready for our next Runbook we need to create a new folder and, a new Runbook in the Runbook Designer:

1. In the Runbook Designer expand the connection to the SCO 2016 server.
2. Navigate to Root\0.1-Cookbook and create a new folder called 1.4-Chapter 6.
3. Create a subfolder called 1.4.1-Send Password expire Mail.
4. Right-click on the new folder and then click on New and select Runbook.
5. Right-click the newly created Runbook and rename it to 1.4.1-Send Password expire Mail.

How to do it...

This Runbook requires a schedule, which is the first activity we need in our Runbook:

1. In the newly created Runbook navigate to and click on Scheduling under Activities and then select and drag a Monitor Date/Time activity into...