Active Directory user password expiration date .NET/OU Group Policy

Question

I have searched the site for information and found this: ASP.NET C# Active Directory - See how long before a user's password expires

which explains how to get th

Answer 1

The following code worked for me to get the password expiration date on both domain and local user accounts:

public static DateTime GetPasswordExpirationDate(string userId, string domainOrMachineName)
{
    using (var userEntry = new DirectoryEntry("WinNT://" + domainOrMachineName + '/' + userId + ",user"))
    {
        return (DateTime)userEntry.InvokeGet("PasswordExpirationDate");
    }
}