Minimum Password age set to 0

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Steven Bellamy

Hi,

I'm having endless problems trying to get AD policies to change "Minimum
Password Age to" to Zero. Previously it was set to 8 days, and that
setting does not want to change.
I've modified the policy for the user accounts and set "Minimum Password
Age to" to Zero, run "secedit /refreshpolicy machine_policy /enforce" on
AD controllers, workstations, and even re-booted both AD controllers,
but still no change.
I keep getting the error "Your Windows password is less than the minimum
password age".

Current settings:
Enforce password history: 10
Maximum password age: 30
Minimum password age: 0
Minimum password length: 8

Any suggestions, as this is getting quite urgent.

Thanks
 
Problem solved.
I typed "net accounts" at a console prompt on an AD controller and the
policies were set to the default...
I then used net accounts /MINPWAGE:0 ... to change the policies on the
domain controller.

What am I missing, as I've changed the settings in the default domain
policy (and the policy assigned to the Domain Controller container), as
well as changed the settings in "Domain Controller Security Policies"...

Thanks
 
Hi Steven,

Great experience sharing! :-)

Best regards,

Rebecca Chen

MCSE2000 MCDBA CCNA


Microsoft Online Partner Support
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