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by nelson68

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If the current policy on an NT domain says passwords can be 6 characters long, and that policy is then changed to 8 characters, does every password in the domain suddenly become invalid ? or is the increased number of characters enforced on the nextpassword change ?

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by mike mullins

Policy is effective for all new passwords or changes to passwords. It does not effect current passwords. Passfilt.dll is not read until passwords are changed.

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by nelson68

We are planning to migrate from Windows NT to Windows 2000. But before we are going to migrate, we are prepairing to change the minimum password from 6 to 8 characters of all users in the domain. But some of the user's properties the 'never expire password' was enabled. We have lots of offices/users worldwide and it's definitely difficult to manage one-by-one all of the user's properties.
Do you have any idea (Script perhaps), on how to force user to change password when their account properties has a "never expire password" to automatically change? And it will automatically force them to change their password the next time they log-on?

Please help us. Your immediate response will be much appreciated.

by shmaltz

You can force a user to change password even if password never expires is checked by clicking "User must change password at next logon".
To select this option for more than one user, in users and groups select one user, then hold down CTRL while you select the other user, you can select as many as you want, then click on File > Properties to get the page where you can change the settings.

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