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Set an individual user’s password to never expire

This article explains how to set a password for an individual user to not expire. You have to complete these steps using PowerShell.

Before you begin

This article is for people who set password expiration policy for a business, school, or nonprofit. To complete these steps, you need to sign in with your Microsoft 365 admin account. See Overview of the Microsoft 365 admin center.

You must be a global admin or password administrator to perform these steps.

A global admin for a Microsoft cloud service can use the Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph to set passwords not to expire for specific users. You can also use AzureAD cmdlets to remove the never-expires configuration or to see which user passwords are set to never expire.

This guide applies to other providers, such as Intune and Microsoft 365, which also rely on Azure AD for identity and directory services. Password expiration is the only part of the policy that can be changed.

How to check the expiration policy for a password

For more information about the Get-AzureADUser command in the AzureAD module, see the reference article Get-AzureADUser.

Run one of the following commands:

  • To see if a single user’s password is set to never expire, run the following cmdlet by using the UPN (for example, [email protected]) or the user ID of the user you want to check: 
    Get-AzureADUser -ObjectId <user id or UPN> | Select-Object UserprincipalName,@{N="PasswordNeverExpires";E={$_.PasswordPolicies -contains "DisablePasswordExpiration"}}
    Get-AzureADUser -ObjectId [email protected] | Select-Object UserprincipalName,@{N="PasswordNeverExpires";E={$_.PasswordPolicies -contains "DisablePasswordExpiration"}}
  • Get-AzureADUser -All $true | Select-Object UserprincipalName,@{
    N="PasswordNeverExpires";E={$_.PasswordPolicies -contains "DisablePasswordExpiration"}
 }
  • To get a report of all the users with PasswordNeverExpires in Html on the desktop of the current user with name ReportPasswordNeverExpires.html 
    Get-AzureADUser -All $true | Select-Object UserprincipalName,@{
    N="PasswordNeverExpires";E={$_.PasswordPolicies -contains "DisablePasswordExpiration"}
} | ConvertTo-Html | Out-File $env:userprofile\Desktop\ReportPasswordNeverExpires.html
  • To get a report of all the users with PasswordNeverExpires in CSV on the desktop of the current user with name ReportPasswordNeverExpires.csv

    PowerShell

    Get-AzureADUser -All $true | Select-Object UserprincipalName,@{
    N="PasswordNeverExpires";E={$_.PasswordPolicies -contains "DisablePasswordExpiration"}
} | ConvertTo-Csv -NoTypeInformation | Out-File $env:userprofile\Desktop\ReportPasswordNeverExpires.csv

Set a password to never expire

Run one of the following commands:

  • To set the password of one user to never expire, run the following cmdlet by using the UPN or the user ID of the user:

    PowerShell

    Set-AzureADUser -ObjectId <user ID> -PasswordPolicies DisablePasswordExpiration
  • To set the passwords of all the users in an organization to never expire, run the following cmdlet:

    PowerShell

    Get-AzureADUser -All $true | Set-AzureADUser -PasswordPolicies DisablePasswordExpiration

 Warning

User accounts configured with the -PasswordPolicies DisablePasswordExpiration parameter still age based on the pwdLastSet attribute. Based on the pwdLastSet attribute, if you change the expiration to -PasswordPolicies None, all passwords that have a pwdLastSet older than 90 days require the user to change them the next time they sign in. This change can affect a large number of users.

Set a password to expire

Run one of the following commands:

  • To set the password of one user so that the password expires, run the following cmdlet by using the UPN or the user ID of the user:

    PowerShell

    Set-AzureADUser -ObjectId <user ID> -PasswordPolicies None
  • To set the passwords of all users in the organization so that they expire, use the following cmdlet:

    PowerShell

    Get-AzureADUser -All $true | Set-AzureADUser -PasswordPolicies None
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