I have just managed to have JDBC working, but I am getting an error that the user does not exist. I have read in the MSDN help that I need to set the sqlExpress to accept SQL server authentication and not windows authentication. So when I am trying to create a new User using Microsoft SQL server management studio express I get the following error.
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
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Create failed for Login 'adam'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.Smo)
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.ConnectionInfo)
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The MUST_CHANGE option is not supported by this version of Microsoft Windows. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15195)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.1399&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=15195&LinkId=20476

Create user error!
Ashvin
You need to have WIndows 2003 to get the feature of advanced password policies, guess you don’t have this, right
HTH, Jens Suessmeyer.
Wa-gee
When creating a new user, on the General properties page, check to make sure that the "User must change password at next login" checkbox is NOT checked, and that will go away.