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From: Microsoft account team [email address redacted]
Subject: New or modified user account information
Date: April 18, 2018 at 7:18 AM
To: Recipients [email address redacted]
Attention: A user account was created or modified. Retrieve your user's temporary password. | View this email
in your browser.
A user account has been created
or modified. You can now distribute
this information to your user.
The following contains temporary passwords for newly created or modified user accounts.
User Name: [redacted]
Temporary Password: [redacted]
Temporary passwords are valid for 90 days
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Sincerely,
The Microsoft Office 365 Team
