Fine grained password policy?
msDS-MaximumPasswordAge=never/none

The cannot change password one has me stumped, though.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Free, Bob <[email protected]> wrote:

>  There isn’t one, at least not natively. ****
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> I had the same thought as you did, sounds like some kind of wonky
> provisioning system or process gone astray.  ****
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> *From:* Steve Kradel [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Friday, July 13, 2012 10:03 AM
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> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
> *Subject:* Re: change AD p/w option****
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> What GPO would do this?  I don't know of any GPOs that would force UAC
> flags like this...****
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> It sounds like the work of a scheduled script / program to me.  There is
> absolutely nothing built into AD that would prevent having both "password
> never expires" and "cannot change password" boxes ticked; in fact, this is
> a very common config for service accounts.****
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> --Steve****
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> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>
> wrote:****
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> Sounds like a group policy setting is undoing your changes...****
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> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:40 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:****
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> When a user account is set up in AD, they set "Password never expires."
> Now, they want to go back and add "user cannot change password."  However,
> when they do make the change, it only holds for a few minutes and then
> reverts back.  If I uncheck 'never expires' and just select 'user cannot'
> within a few minutes both boxes are blank.
> I know that these settings are set at user account creation, but I didn't
> think they were set in stone.  If not through the AD gui, can they be
> changed with PS?****
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