Brian,

Great Article, good examples. I like a lot that it points out differences between 7/2000 and 2005.

As a comment, there was probably one typo:

"............In order to turn on policy checking and password expiration, additional options must be specified. Those additional options are:

• SID = SID
• DEFAULT_DATABASE = default database
• DEFAULT_LANGUAGE = default language
• CHECK_EXPIRATION = { ON | OFF}
• CHECK_POLICY = { ON | OFF}
• CREDENTIAL = credential name

................"

I think you meant to say that in order to turn on policy checking and password expiration SOME of the additional options should be specified.  Please, correct me if I am not right and ALL of the above options should be specified for pasword expiration check.