SharePoint Password Expiration

For security purposes, SharePoint Online makes its users change their password every so often; which is good, but changing your SharePoint password may cause a conflict with your Formotus forms (or any other third party application that uses SharePoint password). Once you change your password in SharePoint you need to also change your credentials in Formotus for submitting forms. Formotus will continue to look at the old password until you change it. So today I am going to show you how to extend the amount of time SharePoint asks for you to change your password!

Steps to Extend Password Expiration:

1. Click on the App Launcher in the upper left hand corner of your Office365 SharePoint Online site

2. Click on Admin (the grey box on the lower right hand corner)
3. On the side menu, select Service Settings and then Passwords