The correct policy to change is the policy that is setting those things already. If you see "not defined", you're not changing the correct policy.
And yes, in most cases it is the Default Domain Policy. Carl From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:15 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Password policy Are you saying I have to do this in the default domain policy? Do I set it at the same point within? Joe Heaton Employment Training Panel From: Carl Houseman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:13 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Password policy Password policies are set at the domain level, assuming 2003 or earlier. You can't get there from here unless you create a new domain for those 27 people. Carl From: Joe Heaton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 6:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Password policy This may be a stupid question, but my google-fu is just giving me generic answers. I want to enforce some password requirements, that are not in effect now. I've done this by creating a new group policy, at the top level of my user OUs. I've gone into Computer configuration -> Windows settings -> Security settings -> Account policies -> Password policy. I set the minimum length, etc. Then, in the right side window for the GPO in GPMC, I use Security filtering to apply the policy to one specific user, for testing. I then went into that user's account, and checked the box for must change password. Then, I go to the machine where I have this user account logged in, go to command prompt and type in gpupdate /force, reboot the machine, and go to change the password. To test it, I tried using a very short password, and it was allowed. What am I doing wrong here? I've got 27 new computers rolling out tomorrow, and we want to enforce the password stuff for those 27 people, but I need to get this right. Joe Heaton AISA Employment Training Panel 1100 J Street, 4th Floor Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 327-5276 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
