Domain password change policy

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anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 03/04/04 

Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 05:34:17 -0800

Hey Simon.
Under Domain Security Policy you find Account Policies,
there you will find Password Policies. Now you can set
password age - complexity and such. These settings you set
under Domain level will override other local settings on
workstations. So... go rule!

Knut Morten
Trondheim
Norway
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello,
>
>we have a windows 2000 AD domain with 400+ users.
>Currently, we have no domain password change policy in
>place and are about to implement one. In order to do so,
I
>need help with the following:
> - all user accounts have the setting "password never
>expires" enabled and some also have the setting "user
>cannot change password" enabled. Is there a way that I
can
>deselect these settings on all the user accounts without
>having to do into each one individually?
> - once I have implemented a maximum age for passwords,
is
>there a way that I can monitor the ages of passwords for
>all accounts in AD?
>
>Please advise.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Simon
>.
>

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