Greetings,
I want to lengthen our organizational policy (not the Default Domain Policy) from 10 to ultimately 16 characters. I'm making an intermediate stop at 14 to give users a chance to adjust. My users are in the following structure: company.local -->
Company. In here is where the company organizational policy is enforced, linked and filtered. My admin accounts live in company.local --> Users. A different set of organizational policies apply to them. The domain is Win 2008 R2.
Here are the questions:
1) When I lengthen the password, will all the existing users be required to change their password immediately, or will the new requirements apply when their existing password expires?
2) Based on my structure above, will this policy only apply to the "Company" OU, or will it hit the "Users" OU as well?
3) I've read about MS limiting the enforceable minimum length to 14, but haven't had the search-fu to determine if that applies to 2008 R2 as well. One replier on this forum stated that MS determined that "14 characters was long enough". I'd just like a bit of clarification on that point, if someone has it...
Thank you to all who took the time to read, and to all of those who share their knowledge!
David