Account Password Policies in Windows 2000 Server

[Kyle Stedman]

Hi,

I've got a container (organizational unit) with a number
of users in it, to whom I apply user policies via Group
Policy. These User policies work fine.

I'd like to apply Account Policies to enforce password
changing and password complexity. I see the settings to
do this under Computer Configuration (as opposed to User
Configuration). I set them, use the command line enforce
command, and I replicate, but the settings don't take. By
this I mean that the users are not forced to do what the
Computer Configuration-Windows Settings-Security Settings-
Account Policies are set to.

Does anyone know why I'm having no success?

Thanks,
Kyle

 

[Jeanie Decker \(MS\)]

Hi Kyle,

Password policy settings can only be applied at the domain level. (I know it
looks like you can set them in the GPO linked to the OU, but as you've
found, they won't take effect that way.)