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by cricket_moon

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Hey there. Hopefully a quick question...
If I go to Active Directory Users and Computers - Users - username - properties - account tab
In the account options section of the account tab, I need all new users to have "password never expires" selected by default. How do I do this?

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by curacao_dejavu

hmm

the only way I can imagine where you could do this is in the domain security policy.unfortunately I don't have a w2k AD at the moment to verify this, it has to be in a policy I imagine.

Leopold

by cricket_moon

I cannot find a policy anywhere that refers to account options on the individual user. User rights, yes. Passwords. No. If you do find this, please let me know.
Thanks

by carlos.nino

Another possibility is creating a group and establishing the security options there. Then include all users in this group.

by cricket_moon

Adding them to a group would be a great idea for assigning account rights, true, but, the password settings are not on the group container, they are on the user. Thanks though

by shawn

An easy way would be to create a blank user account as a template with all the options you require set (like "Password never expires"). When you need to create a new user, simply copy this user account, and all properites are copied as well.

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