Thank you all for confirming this.
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2010 9:48 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Minimum password length GPO On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 9:42 AM, David Mazzaccaro <[email protected]> wrote: > If a default domain policy GPO states "min password length is 7" and I > change it to "min password length 8"... what will happen to those users > who are currently using 7 characters? Password policy is enforced when a password is changed, not at logon. So existing passwords which do not meet password policy will continue to work. It would be nice to have an option to re-check passwords at logon and force a change if non-complaint with current policy, but that doesn't exist, AFAIK. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ . ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
