Re: Forcing Users To Change Passwords

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If I go into Active Directory, I can see where I can force the user to
change his password at the next logon...but how can I change it so that
each
user is forced to change their password every 30 days?

Edit the account policies for the domain.

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885119/en-us

Also, each user account specifies that their password will never expire,
do
I have to go change each of these user accounts? Or will some sort of
Group
Policy override this?

You should remove this because it will cause the account policies to be
ignored.


hth
DDS

"RayRedSoxFan" <RayRedSoxFan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:04FC1705-3EAF-4DD7-AC0C-9B9186CC6C64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
We didn't used to have a policy whereby users were forced to change
passwords
at given intervals, but we want to start doing that.

If I go into Active Directory, I can see where I can force the user to
change his password at the next logon...but how can I change it so that
each
user is forced to change their password every 30 days?

Also, each user account specifies that their password will never expire,
do
I have to go change each of these user accounts? Or will some sort of
Group
Policy override this?

Thanks


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