Re: Group Policy being enforced

I believe these settings will stay as set prior to the values before the
disable. You need to place a value in them, disabling some settings doesn't
necessarily change them back to their previous settings. Set them to a
value more acceptable to your environment.

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Paul Bergson MCT, MCSE, MCSA, CNE, CNA, CCA

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.


"AJ" <AJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:8CF99E28-56E7-4FBA-9226-BF93CCA2D09A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> No. I did not disable the Default Domain GPO. I changed the values for
> the
> password policy back to not defined.
>
> "Dmitry Korolyov [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> What exactly do you mean by disabling the policy? Have you disabled
>> Default
>> Domain Policy GPO, or?
>>
>> --
>> Dmitry Korolyov [d__k@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> MVP: Windows Server - Directory Services
>>
>>
>> "AJ" <AJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:64A9FCAE-45CA-4626-89AB-2BEB1C270AEC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > A couple of months ago I enabled a password policy. Since then I've
>> > had
>> > to
>> > remove it (too many compliants about having to change passwords and the
>> > system requesting password changes in the middle of day when accessing
>> > outlook). But when I attempt to create a new account it still requires
>> > me
>> > to
>> > use the password policy settings for the new account. When someone
>> > requests
>> > to change their password they have to use a password that meets the
>> > length
>> > and complexity that was set in the now disabled policy. I have since
>> > rebooted the server.
>> >
>> > Is there a simple answer to this?
>> >
>> > I have the following enviroment:
>> >
>> > Windows 2000 domain 2 domain controllers running SP4
>> > Exchange 2003 SP1
>> > Workstations run XP SP2
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>>
>>
>>


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