Re: Password length Change Not reflecting

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Rajnish,

Rajnish wrote:
I;ve a Win2k3 Domain on the password policy (Domain) I changed the minimum length to 8 Characters instead of 7.But this is not enforced as i'm able to chnage the password with 6 characters even..Can someone help me in this..

Are there multiple policies at the domain level? Have you checked whether an other policy on domain level specifies different password settings and might win? When looking at the policy from GPMC (with domain focus), the list of policies shown there also is the "precedence" list - meaning the policy on the top might dictate the resulting setting on the client.

cheers,

Florian
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