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108 Email Continuity Administrator Guide version 6.5 (1st ed.)
3 In the New Password box, type a new password.
4 In the Confirm Password box, retype the new password.
5 Click Submit.
Resetting Multiple Passwords By Template
If enabled by Support, Email Continuity allows you to change passwords for many
users at once using a password template based on the users’ first and last names
or any custom text you provide.
WARNING Potential Security Risk
The multiple password reset feature uses passwords that may be easily
guessed.
WARNING Not for Use with Windows Authentication
This feature is not available if your organization uses the Windows
Authentication feature.
To change multiple users’ passwords:
1 From the Administration Console, click User Administration.
2 Click User Information. The User Account Information screen appears.
3 Click Bulk update passwords. The Select Users page appears.
4 Identify users who need new passwords.
a. Use the User Sets, Mailing Lists, Servers, and or Users tabs to
select users.
b. When you find a user or user set, click the check box to select the user
or group and click Add. The selected user or group moves to the list of
users who will get new passwords.
5 Click Next. The Enter Password Pattern page appears.
6 Choose the password template pattern to apply for all selected users. This
pattern determines what the new password will be for each user.
a. To use the recommended pattern, choose Recommended. This
resets the passwords for all selected users to the following form:
!Emailaddress_Mmm-YYYY%
where emailaddress is the portion of the user’s email address that
precedes the @ sign (first letter capitalized and the rest in lower case),
Mmm is the 3-digit abbreviation for the current month (first letter
capitalized and the rest in lower case), and YYYY is the 4-digit year.
For example: