This snippet will be useful when we are trying to use UserID in our process and we need to check whether it is expired or not.In some cases the BOTID, application login UserID or any other UserID related to the same domain might expire and in that case the process will fail.Instead of running with this error, we can check those UserID's password expiry days and send a notification mail to the appropriate group/user to update the password. When the UserID is set with the option for the password to not expire, then this snippet is not required.Note: For this snippet we need Windows admin access, since the process checks the data from the Active Directory System.

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I am trying to use your component to check password expiry but am getting below error. Do you have any idea on this ?

RemoteException wrapping System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException: Unknown error (0x80005000) 

   at System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry.Bind(Boolean throwIfFail)

Am facing the same Issue as @lakshman has mentioned!

Very Useful ! Works as expected !
Key Points to Note:
1. The robot user must have admin rights
2. The User account used for the Robot must be an AD Account and of-course the machine on which the robot runs must be in the same domain as that of the AD Account

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