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How to exclude users from receiving password change confirmation emails?

SharePoint Password Change & Expiration allows users to change their own passwords from SharePoint without administrator intervention. This product also has a feature that sends the email confirming the password has been changed. In this article you will learn how to configure the notification email and the day when it will be sent. We already have an article which shows how to do it. In this article we will demonstrate you how to exclude users from getting the confirmation emails.

WHAT YOU'LL GET

Although the password has been changed, Gabil will not receive any confirmation email.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Password Change & Expiration

The sample data we use for this case

The web part is added to the SharePoint site. For this article we added it to the site page called Password Change and Expiration. Also, web application outgoing email server settings in SharePoint Central Administration or the custom SMTP settings in the Password Change settings must be configured. You can check our other articles to get more information on how to add the web part and configure the custom SMTP settings.

Exclude users from receiving password change confirmation emails

Download the trial version of Password Change & Expiration and install it to your SharePoint server.
Click on the Settings menu on the upper right corner of the page and click on Site Settings.
Find Password Change & Expiration settings in the Site Collection Administration group and click on it.
There is also another way to reach the Password Change Settings. First we need to go to the site where Password Change web part is added. Find Site Settings menu on upper right corner and click on Edit Page.
You will see the web part changed to edit mode after clicking on Edit Page.
Next step, click on small black triangle on the right side of the web part, next to the check box. After clicking you will see the drop down menu appear. Click on Edit Web Part.
You will see the configuration settings box on the right side of the web part appear. Click on Click here to open password change notification settings page.
The Password Change Settings page will open after following the steps 3 and 7.
In this page we will only focus on Password Change Email Confirmation section. If we want to enable the feature we will need to check the box next to the title.
After enabling the feature we will be able to modify or configure other related features. In this article we will introduce you with the Exempt users/groups part which helps us to choose the users who will not receive the email confirmation after changing the password. Frist, we will simply need to fill in the user or group name in the box as following. For example let’s fill in Gabil.
Other parts of the Password Change Email Confirmation section are Email content and CC/BCC to administrator. We will fill it as following. For more information on how to fill these parts, you can refer to other article focused on this issue.
Now let’s click OK to save the changes and log in as Gabil. Then try to change his password. You can find the OK button on the down and upper right side of the settings page.
Logged in as Gabil, go to the page where you added the Password Change web part. Fill in the Current Password, New Password and the Confirm New Password boxes, then click on Change Password, to change the password.
The result will be as following.