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Enforcing password policy the sequel

Asked by jasonbournecia in SBS Small Business Server, Windows Network Security, Miscellaneous Security

Tags: Microsoft, SBS 2003, Password Policy

Hi,
I'm trying to enforce a password policy at work, but it is not working.
I set it first in default domain policy, ran gpupdate, even rebooted, nothing.
Outside IT person came in and said do it through Domain security Policy, did this, the same; nothing. That only shows it as set under default domain policy.
Times moved on now, the above was a month ago. Let me tell you what happened today.

I set the password policy in both 'default domain policy' and 'Small Business Server Domain Password Policy'
Ran gpupdate, Nothing happened. However a few miinutes I was tidying up group membership under users and I removed the 'Mobile User' group from our remote offices; I dont believe they needed it. Suddenly I get calls from them saying they're needing to change passwords. They changed their passwords and all is well including mapped drives. Great so far, but it is not happening for the domain users at head office where the SBS 2003 server is. BTW, the remote offices are not in the domain.
Now, the other intersting bit, someone at head office rebooted their machine and were asked to change their password.
This did not happen for other people when they rebooted. I went into that person's account and noticed she had 'Internet Users' in her account. I have removed it for now.
Have you any idea why the password policy is not working for all the other members of the domain and why, if it is not a coincidence, has it worked for members who were removed from 'Mobile Users' and the one person who had 'internet Users' in her members of list?
Any help much appreciated.
John
Cheers
John
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