Re: GPO and password policies

From: Danny Sanders (Danny.Sanders_at_NO-SPAMcpcmed.org)
Date: 01/21/05 

Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:22:42 -0700

Only one password policy to a domain. Stronger password policies is one
security measure to secure the resources on that domain. Creating a group
with "weaker" passwords amounts to creating a security hole.

Creating a different password policy on an OU will result in that password
policy being applied when logging on locally to the PC rather than logging
on to the domain.

The need for differing password policies is one reason to create another
domain.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"SallyB" <SallyB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7E3D53BE-D26B-477A-8A24-7D0394EA551D@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I want to apply different password policies to different user groups which
> are in different gpo's.How do I do this??
> Thanks
> Sally

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