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strong passwords on Windows 2000 DC

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by adminw

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I have enabled Passwords must meet complexity requirements on a Windows 2000 Domain Controller in the Domain Security Policy and users are still able to use 'unstrong' passwords. This DC is the primary DC in a forest. This setting works for all the child domains but not the parent? Any idea's to get this to work on the parent?

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by mark

Make sure you set them up in both the Domain Group Policies as well as the local PC Group Policies for the parent DC.

by adminw

In case anyone else has this problem, it was the 'Block Policy Interitance' that was enabled. Once I disabled that and refreshed the policy it worked. MS Knowledge Base Article: 269236

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