ADPassMon updated to 1.6

New feature: “Launch Ticket Viewer” menu item, launches Ticket Viewer.app.

Download it here.

ADPassMon updated to 1.5

ADPassMon now works with multi-domain AD forests.

Download version 1.5 here.

ADPassMon updated to 1.4

This update makes ADPassMon compatible with Growl 1.3. If you’re still using an older version of Growl, you do not need this update, but it is also compatible with older versions of Growl.

Download version 1.4 here.

 

ADPassMon updated to 1.3

This minor update fixes an error that affects Macs with only one DNS server configured.

Download ADPassMon v1.3

ADPassMon and FileVault 2

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ADPassMon user Cesar Gonzalez sent me a nice note to let me know that Apple engineers suggested using ADPassMon to work around a problem he encountered after deploying FileVault 2. Due to the EFI boot authentication passthrough, his users are no longer notified of the pending password expirations at the login screen. Since ADPassMon runs after the login process, it works whether FileVault 2 is enabled or not.

Adding to ADPassMon’s feature list without any additional work seems like a big win to me. :) Thanks again, Cesar!

ADPassMon updated to v1.2

This minor update fixes a typo in a kerberos dialog box and a date calculation bug that affects Lion users in rare instances.

Grab the latest version here.

ADPassMon update for 32-bit support

A commenter requested a 32-bit version of ADPassMon so his older Intel Macs can run it. One quick setting change in Xcode and a short recompile later and it’s ready. Version 1.1 support both 32 and 64-bit Intel architectures.

I’ve updated the link on the ADPassMon page and you can download directly here.

Announcing ADPassMon

I just released my very first “real application” — written in that wonderful mashup language that is AppleScript ObjectiveC. ADPassMon is a menu bar app for Mac OS X 10.6 and higher — Lion, too — that monitors your Active Directory password’s age. It does a few more things that you may find useful. Please visit the product page for complete details and a download link.

New Tool: AD Password Monitor

A fellow Mac admin has improved upon my solution to Active Directory password expiration management and has made his project available on Google Code. Password Monitor is an app that lives in your menu bar and unobtrusively displays the number of days remaining until your AD password expires.

Anyone who is either already using one of my scripts or widget or is just looking into a way to solve the AD password expiration problem should definitely give this a look. One key difference with this solution is that you must set the expiration age of AD passwords manually. Since this information is easy to obtain from your AD admin, it should not be an issue. Here’s what the preferences window looks like.

Keep in mind that the project is in its early stages, but it is quite useable now.

UPDATE: The current version is incompatible with Snow Leopard. The bug has already been reported.