Re: Group Polices - Account Policies - Password Enforcement

From: Chriss3 (noSpamHere_at_chrisse.se)
Date: 03/18/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 16:35:36 +0100

Password Policies are domain wide and can only be configured at once for
each domain. 

-- 
Regards
Christoffer Andersson
No email replies please - reply in the newsgroup
"Kyle Stedman" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:ae6b01c40cef$db780710$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi Christoffer,
>
> Thanks for the info. I think I'm almost there. One last
> thing if you are kind enough:
>
> We have a container with Staff users, and a container
> with Public users. These public users are simply
> autologon accounts for our public machines. I want the
> Account policies to only apply the staff users in the
> staff container. I don't want to have to run around to 60
> public machines changing their autologon settings because
> of Account Policy password policies.
>
> Thanks much,
> Kyle
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Kyle Account Policies within a Group Policy applies to
> the local computer
> >and local accounts only. To configure such setting for
> domain users use the
> >Domain Security Policy Snapin.
> >
> >-- 
> >Regards
> >Christoffer Andersson
> >
> >No email replies please - reply in the newsgroup
> >
> >"Kyle Stedman" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
> skrev i meddelandet
> >news:f1da01c40c89$e229ce60$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I've got a container (organizational unit) with a
> number
> >> of users in it, to whom I apply user policies via Group
> >> Policy. These User policies work fine.
> >>
> >> I'd like to apply Account Policies to enforce password
> >> changing and password complexity. I see the settings to
> >> do this under Computer Configuration (as opposed to
> User
> >> Configuration). I set them, use the command line
> enforce
> >> command, and I replicate, but the settings don't take.
> By
> >> this I mean that the users are not forced to do what
> the
> >> Computer Configuration-Windows Settings-Security
> Settings-
> >> Account Policies are set to.
> >>
> >> Does anyone know why I'm having no success?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Kyle
> >>
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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