(1) This Perl script conveniently mails a formatted report (username, fullname, date of expiration) into your inbox listing accounts whose password will expire between two user-specified dates.

NWAdmin, ConsoleOne, and even iManager have no native means to display results for this type of query.

Identifying such accounts can be especially useful prior to a major IT project, migration, or an upgrade that could last for an extended period of time -- during which you want to avoid causing additional administrative complexity and keep things simpler for your end-users.

(2) Additionally, this script can also now alter the expiration date of those identified accounts by:

• Advancing all accounts' expiration to the same future date, or
• Alternatively advancing each account by "x" number of days beyond
their current password expiration date, maintaining their naturally staggered pattern(keeps your Helpdesk from being potentially overwhelmed with password issues if there's a problem).

Both of these update-type selections upgrade the formatted report to include before-and-after styled results detailing each user account's information.