Re: Password Policies

From: Keith W. McCammon (km_at_km.com)
Date: 06/02/04

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Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 09:15:50 -0400

Have you set the specified OU to block inheritance of other policies and
explicitly set a policy for that OU to your liking?

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to override the Password Policy in the
> Default Domain Policy? I'm trying to assign a different
> password policy to a certain group using a group policy
> but the password settings are ignored. Instead the
> password policy from the Default Domain Policy is applied.
> Any work arounds?

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