Set your password expiration policy

User passwords expire on a regular basis in Office 365. As an admin, you can make user passwords expire after a certain number of days, or set passwords to never expire.

1. Sign in to Office 365 with your work or school account.

2. Go to the Office 365 admin center.

3. In the Office 365 admin center, choose Settings > Security and privacy, and then click Edit.

   

4. If you don't want users to have to change passwords, set Passwords never expire to On.

   

5. If you want user passwords to expire, in the first box type how often passwords should expire. Choose a number of days from 14 to 730.

   

6. In the second box type when users are notified that their password will expire, and then click Save. Choose a number of days from 1 to 30.

   When a user signs in to Office 365 and their password has expired, they will be prompted with a page like the one shown below to create a new password:

   

See Also

Set an individual user's password to never expire

Let people reset their own passwords in Office 365