Re: Security Policy on Users

From: Tim Hines, MCSE [MVP] (nupe009@carolina.rr.com)
Date: 12/04/02 

From: "Tim Hines, MCSE [MVP]" <nupe009@carolina.rr.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 00:56:21 GMT

Password policies are per domain and cannot be applied on a per user or per
OU basis. 

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Tim Hines, MCSA, MCSE (2000 & NT4)
MVP - Active Directory
"1shah" <shah_rukh2k@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e7$xm4ymCHA.2280@TK2MSFTNGP10...
> Is it possible to apply a policy on users present in a certain ou. I want
to
> enforce the users in that ou to change password after every 30 days, but I
> dont want other users in different OUs to be affected by this policy.
>
> How can I do that?
> Plz help.
>
>

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