We did this one outselves, well one of my admins did
without telling me... The consequences were unexpected by them but completely
obvious when thought about (oh how i wish they had thought about it
first) as the password expiry automatically expired passwords older than
that age, and in our environment 90% had had the same one for a long time.
Of course we carry in excess of 8k users so this might not be as big an issue to
you
Yes this can cause issues and yes it can cause large
numbers of peoples passwords to change at once depending on age, this is not
neccesarily a bad thing if your users have education levels enough to change
passwords or have access but if they have never had to it might be a good idea
to think seriously before applying this change.
From: Thommes, Michael M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, 15 May 2004 1:04 AM
To: Active Directory Mailing List (E-mail)
Subject: [ActiveDir] consequences of setting password expiration length
Hi
Folks,
I
apologize for the question since I think it has been battered around in one form
or another but I can't seem to find the answer. The question: a related
company root admin wants to see a password expiration length time on a W2K
domain. He is worried that everyone's password will expire at the same
time. Correct or incorrect? TIA!
Mike
Thommes
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