Re: Strong Password Group Policy not working



Try going to one of the XP machines and run gpresult form the command line.
It sometimes gives you a little more info on why a gpo wasn't applied.

Can you browse to the gpo object using network neighborhood? Look for the
sysvol folder on your dc.



"Ward" <Ward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:841AC4A8-5645-4219-BEA9-179836515125@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I have one Windows 2003 Active Directory domain with Windows XP and Windows
> 2000 client workstations. I created a group policy to enable strong
> passwords according to the instructions at
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/smallbusiness/topics/networksecurity/enforce_strong_passwords.mspx.
>
> However, the policy is not applied to any of the workstations. I
> confirmed
> this by running rsop.msc on several workstations and saw that the policy
> was
> not being applied.
>
> What is it failing?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ward


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