Re: Password Policy Change

From: Mike Aubert (mikenews2_at_2000trainers.com)
Date: 02/15/04 

Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 07:28:07 -0600

The password age is based on the last time the user changed their password.
So if someone changed their password 100 days ago, and you implement a
policy that requires passwords be changed every 60 days, the user would be
prompted to change their password at the next logon.

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"Lee" <lmessenger@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:O3hLEf78DHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> hi,
>
> We have been in migration mode for the last 6 months, migrating from NT to
> AD. Initially I setup a loose password policy, I.e. password expires in
> 300 days, so that users don't have to change their passwords and
> subsequently cannot access stuff in the old domain.
>
> Now I want to change the password expiry to 60 days.
>
> If a user hasn;t changed their password in 100 days for example, and I
apply
> the new policy, will they immediately be forced to change their password,
or
> will the 60 days begin from the time I apply the new password policy ?
>
> TIA
>
> LM
>
>

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