Re: Account password and other settings

From: Paul A. Mancuso (pmancuso@intenseschool.com)
Date: 12/15/02 

From: "Paul A. Mancuso" <pmancuso@intenseschool.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 00:13:19 -0500

Yes I know, just wanted to clarify that any GPO at the Domain level can be
used to set the Account Policies as long as that policy has the higher
priority. But thank you for your pointed clarification.

Paul

"Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u7EN2d4oCHA.2084@TK2MSFTNGP12...
> The GPO's simply modify the values of some attributes in domain partition
> object, so you can only have one set of value for the domain no matter how
> many GPO's you have.
>
> See the attributes
>
> lockOutObservationWindow
> lockoutDuration
> lockoutThreshold
> maxPwdAge
> minPwdAge
> minPwdLength
> pwdHistoryLength
>
>
>
> --
> Joe Richards
> www.joeware.net
> ---
>
> "Paul A. Mancuso" <pmancuso@intenseschool.com> wrote in message
> news:OjXZAQcoCHA.2308@TK2MSFTNGP10...
> > Can create another Domain policy, not just THE "Default Domain Policy"
> > right? -:) Just make the new Domain policy have the higher priority.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > "Tim Hines, MCSE [MVP]" <nupe009@carolina.rr.com> wrote in message
> > news:1MbJ9.12438$uJ5.1185509@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> > > Those setting are per-domain and can only be defined in the default
> domain
> > > policy. This was the same in NT 4 from what I remember. In NT 4 you
> > could
> > > not set expiry date, password length, complexity etc for each user.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tim Hines, MCSA, MCSE (2000 & NT4)
> > > MVP - Active Directory
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Blaze" <asfdaf@aff.com> wrote in message
> > > news:3df53947_4@corp.newsgroups.com...
> > > > With NT you could set the account parameters on each account
> > > > individually...Like expiry date, password length, complexity etc etc
> > > >
> > > > yet in 2000 server I seem to only do the whole domain or container..
> Is
> > > > there a way to do it individually ??
> > > >
> > > > all the users are in one container...
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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