I know that expiration feature in a Windows domain environment for user accounts is useful for automation processes. But I'd like to know if a disabled account is the same than an expired account in terms of accesibility to the domain.
In the other words, if I had to avoid the access to the domain resources for a user account, disabling and expiring have the same effect?
Thank you.
They are effectively the same. The only difference is the message displayed to the user when they attempt to logon.
Yes. They don't differ on the resulting effects, but on the motivations (read: why?) of the deactivation. See here for more details.