Re: Can't add users to new 2003 AD

From: Jonathan Maltz [MS-MVP] (jmaltz_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/28/03

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    I thought I remembered that password policies need the server to be rebooted
    in order to take effect? 

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"Paul Adare" <padare@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1a57929c7fd18301989799@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <eoywvKKzDHA.2780@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, in the
> microsoft.public.windows.server.security news group, Wayne Sheffield
> <wayne_sheffield@hotmail.com> says...
>
> > I'm sure that it's been rebooted, but I just rebooted it again just in
case.
> > Now, it accepts the password policy that I want it to. If you have to
> > reboot, you would think the OS would tell you to... like it does for so
many
> > other things.
> >
>
> You don't have to reboot, gpupdate /force will work.
>
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