Re: Account Lockout Policy

From: Clarence (raven_2517_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:15:33 -0500

So basically Win2k gives no advantage for domain-wide account settings over
NT4. As far as understanding group policy, I do, I'm simply asking for a way
to circumvent the design...but apparently no seems to have my scenario of
even attempted without using a 3rd party application.

"Paul Adare" <padare@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1a806b51a8f96046989823@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <MPG.1a806a473e0e6927989822@msnews.microsoft.com>, in the
> microsoft.public.win2000.security news group, Paul Adare
> <padare@newsguy.com> says...
>
> > Although account and password policy _affect_ user and computer
> > accounts, the GPO that contains the policy is _processed_ by computers
> > (which is why these policies exist in the Computer Configuration portion
> > of a GPO).
> >
>
> Sorry, small correction, should read "Although account and password
> policy _affect_ user accounts..."
> --
> Paul Adare
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