Microsoft KB Archive/288234

= Password Expiration Message Is Not Displayed with GPO Logon Script Running in Synchronous Mode =

Article ID: 288234

Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q288234



SYMPTOMS
If you enable synchronous processing of logon scripts in a Group Policy object (GPO), or even in a Local Computer policy, the &quot;Your password expires in  days&quot; message is not displayed.



CAUSE
Synchronous processing of login scripts requires Windows to switch to the user desktop, because a script may start a program that requires user input.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   Date        Time    Version        Size      File name --  3/5/2001   02:12p   5.0.2195.3329  331,536   Msgina.dll



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, disable synchronous processing of logons scripts.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

296861 Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

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Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbwin2000presp3fix kbqfe kbwin2000sp3fix kbsecurity kbhotfixserver KB288234

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