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On Mary-Jo Foley’s blog  there is a blog item which states that Microsoft is working on a “BPOS Lite” productivity/collaboration suite that is aimed at small/mid-size businesses (SMBs).

This rumor is based on some Bing searches she did for ”BPOS Lite”. If you would like to find out more, you can read the article here

MessageOps has released a nice script which you can use to notify your BPOS users when their Online Passwords are about to expire.

Hereby a copy of the script.
Original source here

#Microsoft Online Password Expiration Notification Script
#
#Written By:Chad Mosman, MessageOps, www.messageops.com
#
#This script notifies users via email when their Microsoft Online Password is about
#to expire. It is designed to be scheduled to run on a daily basis. Due to the way
#it searches for users, it requires directory synchronization be enabled for the domain
#it is run against.
#
#The following variables should be modified before running the script
#
#$AdvancedWarning – Controls how many days before expiration the users will be notified
#that their password is about to expire. Default is 15 days.
#
#$mailFrom – Enter the email address that the notification will appear to come from.
#
#$SMTPServer – If inbound mailflow is enabled for your Microsoft Online domain, the default of
#mail.global.frontbridge.com should work. Otherwise, specify the name of your on-premise
#mail system.
#
#$powerUser – Username of an account with Service Admin Rights in Microsoft Online.
#
#$powerpass – Password of the account with Service Admin Rights in Microsoft Online.
#
#$subject, $body – The notification message subject and body can be customized to your needs.
#
#When testing it is recommended the script be run against a single user. To do that, change:
#
#$collitems = Get-XsActiveDirectoryUser -Identity *
#To
#$collitems = Get-XsActiveDirectoryUser -Identity EmailAddressOfTestUser
#
#For assistance with the script, to report problems, or provide comments contact support@messageops.com
#
#Number of days in advance the user should be warned that their password is about to expire
$AdvancedWarning=15
#Email address that the notification email will appear to be from
$mailFrom = "user@yourdomain.com"
#If inbound mailflow is not enabled on your domain in Microsoft Online, change this value
#to your on-premise mail server which should forward to Microsoft Online
$smtpServer = "mail.global.frontbridge.com"
#Microsoft Online Service Account Username and Password
$powerUser = "user@domain.microsoftonline.com"
$powerPass = "Password"
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString $powerPass -AsPlainText -Force
$adminCredential = New-Object -TypeName System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $powerUser,$password
#Get all objects in your local Active Directory that are synchronized to Microsoft Online
$collitems = Get-XsActiveDirectoryUser -Identity * -Resultsize 100000 -quiet| Search-XsMicrosoftOnlineDirectory -Credential $adminCredential
foreach ($objitem in $collitems){
#Determine if the user has been activated or not
if($objitem.HardMatchName -ne $null){
$mailbox = get-xshostedExchangeMailbox -SourceIdentity $objitem.HardMatchName -sourceserver domain.com | Search-XsMicrosoftOnlineDirectory -credential $adminCredential
#check to see if the account is activated
if($mailbox.TargetSendQuota -gt 0){
#format the email address
$emailAddress = $mailbox.HardmatchName -replace "SMTP:",""
#get the password expiration date for the current user
$user=Get-msonlineuser -identity $emailAddress -credential $adminCredential
#calculate the date difference between today and the password expiration date
$datedifference=($user.PasswordExpirationDate-[DateTime]::Now).Days
#is the password going to expire withing the number of days configured in the AdvancedWarning?
If ($datedifference -le $AdvancedWarning){
If ($datedifference -eq 0){
$subject = "IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED: Your Microsoft Online Password Has Expired"
$body = "Your Microsoft Online password has expired. "
}
ElseIf ($dateDifference -eq 1){
$subject = "IMMEDIATE ACTION REQUIRED: Your Microsoft Online Password will expire in 1 day"
$body = "Your Microsoft Online password will expire in 1 day. "
}
Else{
$subject = "ACTION REQUIRED: Your Microsoft Online Password will expire in",$datedifference,"days"
$body = "Your Microsoft Online password will expire in",$datedifference,"days. "
}
$body = $body + "Please use the Microsoft Online Sign in Client to change your password. If you do not use the Sign In Client, browse to https://home.microsoftonline.com to reset your password."
#send notification to user
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($mailFrom, $emailaddress, $subject, $body)
}
}
}
}