Re: Password Policy and Service Accounts

And, by the way, Danny gave you _the only_ solution if the
service accounts are domain accounts. Alternatively, one
can often use machine local accounts for services, in which
case you would want to mask the machine local SAM from
the effects of the domain defined account policies by having
different account policies set in an OU linked GPO, which
then is combined if needed with the same technique Danny
outlined.

--
Roger

"sald45" <sald45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for your prompt response, I will give that a try.

"Danny Sanders" wrote:

Will password policies effect these
accounts?

Yes.

Also is there a way to exclude certain accounts' from domain
password policies?


Set the account's password to never expire. It's a good idea to
periodically
change manually.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

"sald45" <sald45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I would like to start using Domain wide password policies and have a
question
regarding service accounts. We have a many accounts for various
software
packages that need the "Run as Service" elevated privalage on our
servers.
Every so often we may need to logon to the server or workstation as one
of
these accounts for troubleshooting. Will password policies effect these
accounts? Also is there a way to exclude certain acccounts from domain
password policies?

Thanks.





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