How to set an Office 365 user passwordto Never expire

                                  Office 365 User Password - Never Expire


This applies to Office 365 Enterprise or Office 365 Midsize organization.

Let us see how can we set a office365 user account password to never expire, Firstly we need to connect to our office 365 Tenant account:

1. Open Azure power shell, run as administrator.
2. Type the below command to import the MSOnline module.
    Import-Module MSOnline
3. Type the below command and it will prompt for your Office365 credentials. Enter the credentials once it is prompted and click Ok
   $O365Cred = Get-Credential
4. Now type the below command to initiate a PSSesssion to your Office 365 tenant account
   $O365Session = New-PSSession –ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $O365Cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
5. Now enter the below 2 command in the power shell.

Import-PSSession $O365Session -AllowClobber

Connect-MsolService –Credential $O365Cred

Now you can follow below commands based on your scenario,

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:

Set-MsolUser -UserPrincipalName <user ID> -PasswordNeverExpires $true

To set the passwords to never expire for all the users in an organization, run the following cmdlet:

Get-MSOLUser | Set-MsolUser -PasswordNeverExpires $true

To see whether a single user’s password is set to never expire, run the following cmdlet by using the user principal name (UPN) (for example, april@contoso.onmicrosoft.com) or the user ID of the user you want to check:

Get-MSOLUser -UserPrincipalName <user ID> | Select PasswordNeverExpires

To see the "Password never expires" setting for all users, run the following cmdlet:

Get-MSOLUser | Select UserPrincipalName, PasswordNeverExpires

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