I agree with Bob. Seven days pre-W2K, 30 days for W2K and better. I have never seen a machine change its password at the 50% age and I have looked at this quite a bit for various[1] reasons.
joe [1] OldCmp being one of them... -- O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition - http://www.joeware.net/win/ad3e.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Free, Bob Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Machine Psswd Age The default was 7 days for NT, increased to 30 in W2K and above. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/154501/ or q175468 or any of the old domain sizing docs. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulf B. Simon-Weidner Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 11:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Machine Psswd Age AFAIK the password change interval is set to 30 in XP (15 in NT, W2k), but the computer accounts starts to request renewal after 50% of the time is over. After 30 days it'll change it if being logged onto the domain for sure (unless otherwise configured or connected). Gruesse - Sincerely, Ulf B. Simon-Weidner Profile & Publications: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=35E388DE-4885-4308-B489-F2F1214 C811 D Weblog: http://msmvps.org/UlfBSimonWeidner Website: http://www.windowsserverfaq.org >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Za Vue >Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 5:04 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [ActiveDir] Machine Psswd Age > >Anyone know how often machine passwords are renew/reset in the domain? > >-Z.V. > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
