Implementing Minimum Password length

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"=?Utf-8?B?UmVuZGZlc3Q=?=" <Rendfest@discussions.microsoft.com> said

> In our GPO, we've currently got the password length set to 6. We want to
> increase that to 8 and want to know what implication that might have. I
> want to make sure it doesn't do something stupid like not allow users to
> log on with their current 6 character password. I would expect those to
> to continue to work until they're prompted to enter a new password which
> would need to be 8 characters or more.
>

Any password length or complexity changes only impact users the first time
they are required to change their password after the changes are made.
Existing passwords are not affected.

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Andy.