Password Expiration Policy
Good afternoon Experts,
We had been requested to lower the max age for password from 120 days to 90 days. Upon looking through group policies on our Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller I cannot find any policies with this max age setting. I have combed through all policies for the users who reported that previously they were prompted to change password and can not find any settings for this. Running a RSOP on a few of these users the only references to a password policy for for minimum length, complexity requirements, and lockout policy (see RSOP screenshot attached). I have confirmed through the Active Directory Administrative Center that these users are in fact some how getting a setting that marks their password to expire after 120 days. I am wondering if anyone has any ideas for tracking down where this is coming from in group policy or is there another way to do this that the previous administrator may have configured?
Thanks!
We had been requested to lower the max age for password from 120 days to 90 days. Upon looking through group policies on our Server 2008 R2 Domain Controller I cannot find any policies with this max age setting. I have combed through all policies for the users who reported that previously they were prompted to change password and can not find any settings for this. Running a RSOP on a few of these users the only references to a password policy for for minimum length, complexity requirements, and lockout policy (see RSOP screenshot attached). I have confirmed through the Active Directory Administrative Center that these users are in fact some how getting a setting that marks their password to expire after 120 days. I am wondering if anyone has any ideas for tracking down where this is coming from in group policy or is there another way to do this that the previous administrator may have configured?
Thanks!
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I have read through that article and located this Password Settings Container in AD and using ADSI Edit but it does not appear anything is set within here. Any other ideas?
If fine grained policies are not set then the only policy that controls domain accounts is the "default domain policy." Settings in any other policy are simply ignored.
Open the group policy manager from your domain controller. See my 2 screenshots. What does your password policy show here? Can you take a screenshot and post. My 2 screenshots are (1) displaying the default domain policy settings tab. On the other screenshot I right-clicked my default domain policy and picked edit. Then I picked my way down the computer settings and expanded password policies. This is a test DC for me where I have max set to 0 days (which means no max).
policy-settings.jpg
policy-settings.jpg
My above post continued....I think I found a glitch in Experts-Ex because whenever I tried to add my 2nd screenshot, the "add" ability was actually off of the bottom of the screen so I could never click the box to complete adding. I even tried tabbing and using the return key. Oh well. Here's my 2nd screenshot of editing my default dom group policy.
edit-domain-pass-policy.jpg
edit-domain-pass-policy.jpg
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Worked around the issue.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc770394(v=WS.10).aspx