Re: GPO and password policies

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 01/24/05 

Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:17:05 -0600

Hi Phillip.

Maximum password age is part of the domain password policy the will apply to
all "domain" user accounts unless the account is configured for "password
never expires" in the user account in AD Users and Computers. Did you get
any of that snow we got downstate? --- Steve

"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message
news:ePNz$SiAFHA.4044@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> "Shenan Stanley" <news_helper@hushmail.com> wrote in message
> news:u77tBc9$EHA.2032@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> You don't.
>> Password Policies are Domain Wide.
>
> That brings up somehting I've wondered about. Is the password
> "expiration"
> part of the same policy? If it is how do you enforce those expirations
> with
> "DOS'ing" all your running services the next time that passwords expire?
> The only way to prevent that is to have expirations for only certain
> users/groups and not other (like service accounts and some admin
> accounts).
>
> --
>
> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> www.wandtv.com
>
>
>

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