Hi,
We are planning to change our organization's password policy, but we want to do it gradually (i.e. apply the new policy to ten users at a time).
Currently many users have rather weak passwords that are very easily rembered by other users. We would like to implement a stronger password policy using group policy. We have created a new group policy according to the step-by-step procedure below:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/smallbusiness/topics/networksecurity/enforce_strong_passwords.mspxThe new policy settings require strong passwords, a minimum password age, etc... We have currently disabled the new policy, because we want to make sure that only ten users at a time will be affected by the new policy. The reason is that certain users should only be asked to change their password in a few months (after we've educated them about strong passwords and after we have synchronized the network password with that of an accounting application that will only work if the passwords correspond). Other users should be asked to change their password right away. We want to work with small groups, because we have a lot of users who are not ICT-minded and we expect a lot of calls when they receive the request to change their passwords.
Our question is: how can we resolve this issue (that the new policy is bestowed on only ten users at a time)? Is it enough to select "password never expires" under the "account" tab and to select "never" under the "account expires" heading for every user's properties?
It is our intention to do this and then unselect the above user property settings for ten users at a time. Will this have the desired result?
Thanks in advance for your help!
VICTOR
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