Implementing fine-grained password policies

Complex passwords are a basic security setting that any administrator uses. In the AD environment, password complexity settings and account lockout settings can be configured by using GPO settings, which are located at Computer Configuration | Policies | Windows Settings | Security Settings | Account Policies. Before Windows Server 2008, there was only one password policy and account lockout policy setting that could be applied to users. With Windows Server 2008, Microsoft introduced fine-grained password policies, which allow administrators to create different password and account lockout policy settings for individual users or groups. This allows you to protect privileged accounts using stronger policies than regular user accounts. This feature continued with every AD DS version after 2008 and is available with AD DS 2022 as well.

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