sorry for this "noob" question but is there a password limit on NT4
SP6a ?
Indeed, I am not able to define a password that has more than 14
characters length.

I want to force a user to log off when his logon hours expire.
In the Network Security category (under Group Policy), I enabled the Force
Logoff When Logon Hours Expire policy, but users are never logged off.
I running Windows Server 2003 as a standalone (no domain or AD). the ...

Hello, I've delegated full controll to a security group to an OU, but that
group still not able to manage computers remotely. For instance, they cannot
perform administrative tasks on computers in that are in this OU. I know I
can run a script to add this security group to all ...

I currently have windows 2003 sp1 and when I want to run a exe from the
desktop I get this message.
"windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. you may not have
the appropriate persion to access the item"

We would like to use MS IAS as a RADIUS server for a centralized
router management.
We were able to make it work perfectly in PAP mode but as this exposes
passwords we would like to use MS CHAP.

I have recently been given charge of the server group at our company.  Since
I am from the application side there are certain pratices that I am not
familiar with.  One of these is the practice of remaining continuously logged
in to servers.  In previous companies I was lead to ...

Server: Windows 2003
The server was installed as a member server of our domain when it still
connected to our network locally. We did not create password for local
administrator but using domain administrator password instead.

I want to increase the security of my windows 2003 servers.
I read some documents from Microsoft.
I'm still confuse about the difference between the original templates
(securews, hisecurews...) and the one supplied

    Is there a way to add multiple entires for the same user using
xcacls?  I am open to other suggestions, but here is what I need to
do...
I need to give Domain Admins specific access to "Subfolders and

I upgraded our Enterprise CA from Windows 2000 CA to Windows 2003
Standard and it now refuses to issue certificates.  Is it possible to
set up another CA on a 2003 Enterprise box and have them online at the
same time?  While I can't find documentation that recommends having

need your help.
I'm stuck in that the GPO only allow me to configure the "account policies"
from Computer Configuration.
I could not find the way to allow me to configure it by "User

Sigh! When trying to discover a Step-by-Step (even in the so called
Step-by-Step section of Technet) method of setting up a simple (oxymoron?)
configuration of a CA and self-signed certificate for the sole purpose of
being able to recover EFS encrypted files and folders, I struck ...

We are working with an application vendor in SSL security for a Web-facing
server in the DMZ which is also an Active Directory member. I created an
Active Directory Enterprise CA and then a subordinate CA for the server with
1024 bit security with RSA and SHA1.

I have a service account with administrator rights that I would like
to restrict to just performing software installs.  The account needs
to be able to copy files to the administrative shares on the target
computer (servers and workstations), then execute the setup program

I have aW2K3 server that belongs to a domain. I would like to set security
privileges for files with the authority being the directory that is the
domain controller.  However the locations only shows the local host (the
server itself).  What do I need to do to see the Directory from ...