What specific changes are you trying to make? There are a number of password
policies which are domain specific and cannot be specified at a more
granular level.

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Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE
Sr. Systems Administrator
Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity
Atlanta, GA


> -----Original Message-----
> From: AliAdmin [mailto:AliAdmin@;bango.net] 
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 5:00 AM
> To: NT 2000 Discussions
> Subject: Active Directory Password Policy Grief.
> 
> 
> Hi All.
> 
> I hope somebody can help me here, as I'm beginning to tear my 
> hair out.
> 
> I currently have Active directory installed and I'm running with the a
> configured default security policy. I have a number of OU's 
> also configured.
> Everything is happy except that now I wish to alter the 
> password security
> for one OU - making it stricter. As I understand AD, in order 
> to increase
> the security for that one OU all I need do is modify the OU policy, as
> policy is applied hieratically the last applied policy takes 
> precedent. In
> this case the OU policy should supersede the Default policy 
> and thus apply
> the increased security.
> 
> Unfortunately this is not the case. Other aspects of the OU policy are
> applied - eg a specific splash screen- and when I run 
> GPResult the OU policy
> is applied to that machine and user. However the password 
> security policy is
> not applied, the Default Policy is still in effect.
> 
> I have tried Blocking the inheritance, just in case and the 
> behaviour was
> not effected. It might be something to do with the Default 
> Password Policy
> needing to be the same for both Domain OU and Domain 
> Controller OU but I am
> rather reluctant to alter those and potentially affect all users.
> 
> Am I missing something about how password policies are applied.
> 
> Your help will be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ali
> 
> Alister Haran
> Sys Admin
> 
> 
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