From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
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Configure password policy settings - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
Configure password policy settings
- When you create a password whether it be with an online website or even on an individual PC you know that there's typically some level of criteria required behind that password. Well in Active Directory there is a specific password policy that allows you, the administrator, to determine the criteria for your passwords on your network. To show you the password policy I need to go into any domain controller. So I'm going to select DC1. Here on DC1 I'm going to go into the tools menu on the server manager and I'm going to select Group Policy Management. The password policy exists within a group policy object and if you are familiar with group policy objects you know that you can create many objects and they can be linked to all sorts of different places in your network. Well the password settings are an exception to that rule. They must be linked specifically to the domain. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to…
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