That setting is not applied to the clients. This is applied to the domain controllers, its them who manage domain password. The only place they read password policyes is form the domain root level, where you have the default domain policy. Try to refresh the policy on the domain controllers. Mvh Svein Arild -----Opprinnelig melding----- Fra: Puetz, Christoph [mailto:christoph.puetz@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sendt: 25. mai 2004 15:50 Til: 'windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Emne: [windows2000] GPO problem We're dealing with a really weird GPO problem. The password policy got changed in the default domain GPO. This was not supposed to happen and the changes have been reversed due to problems with some clients and 3rd party software. However - even with forcing replication and forcing gpupdate on the clients, numerous reboots - the settings still apply to the clients. Any idea what is holding on to the wrong GPO settings and how that can be cleared out? Windows 2000 AD Domain - mixed mode. Christoph ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________