Re: Removing policy settings from a PC?

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Howdy William!

William Stokes wrote:
Hello,

I have a WinXP laptop which is a member of our Domain and therefore it has aquired all our domain policies from our AD. Next week I have to give a presentation about computer security and for demonstrative purposes I need to create few local user accounts with weak passwords security. So I need to remove the group policy settings that enforce the password complexity in our domain from my laptop. How? I have admistrative access to domain and the laptop. I tried this using local security policy from admistrative tools but the pswd options there are disabled. do I need to remove the laptop from domain?

I have two suggestions for you that might help you out:

(a) remove the computer from the domain so the password complexity will no longer take effect on the computer. You can then start your presentation with weak passwords or

(b) move the computer into an OU and create a new group policy for this OU. In the GP you can set a (special) Password Policy that matches your wishes. This newly created Password Policy will only affect the computer's _local_ user passwords.

Either should work for you - just decide which one will be less time consuming for you..

cheers,

Florian
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Nachwuschsadmin aus dem Süddeutschen/Germany.
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