Domain Controller Password Policy
Right click the default domain policy and click edit.
Domain controller password policy. The password policy is read from group policy and applied to these attributes by the domain controller holding the pdc emulator role when it runs gpupdate. Get addefault domain password policy authtype adauthtype credential pscredential identity addefaultdomainpasswordpolicy server string commonparameters description. The domain policy is linked at the domain level and the domain controller policy is linked to the domain controllers ou.
The get addefaultdomainpasswordpolicy cmdlet gets the default password policy for a domain. The identity parameter specifies the active directory domain. But the settings do not have to come from the built in default domain policy.
Next click on the active directory administrative center tool. Open the group policy management console 2. Opening group policy management.
The domain controller the owner of fsmo s pdc emulator role manages the domain password policy. Nguyen bsc mcsex2 mcsax2 mcp mcts mcitp ccna a how to change password complexity policy on a domain controller b how to change password complexity policy on a non domain controller implementation details. To access the domain password policy editor we need to open the server manager.
To view the password policy follow these steps. The default domain policy contains a set of default password settings. The password policy gpo settings are applied to all domain computers not users.
In reality these are the criteria for a password policy gpo. In the next window select the forest and then follow the following path. You can identify a domain by its distinguished name guid security identifier sid dns domain name or netbios name.