Read password Policy at different OUs in a Active Directory domain

HI,
1. Can I apply password polices at OU levels?
I could apply password polices at OU level, [I set minPwdLength=8 for a GPO at an OU].
But when I tried creating a user with 7 characters in password. It did not respect the policy at the OU level. and the user was created.
[Note that minPwdLength was 5 at domain level GPO]
Does this mean, password policies at the OU level are ignored?
And only domain level policy is applied?
Thanks in advance.

Why on earth are you searching for information on the Active Directory, that does not have anything to do with JNDI in this forum ?
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