Windows Server 2012 R2 Setting Active Directory User Password Policy (GPO) Tutorial

In a domain with Active Directory users should be given a password policy e.g.
change password every 15 days or the password must contain a minimum of 8 characters etc.
In the Group Policy Editor it is very simple to apply such policies.
And in certain situations where convenience is a priority it is also possible to ensure that the password policy does not irritate e.g.
users can be allowed to use the same password again or the password complexity can be relaxed a bit.
The following tutorial video shows how such is done in an Active Directory enabled domain.
These policies then are applied to Windows 10, 8.1 8 etc.
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I need to get to the screen.
How do we get there very simply press window in our and the and printers in our energy plc.MSC.
Click okay.
You get here and now we go to the default domain policy okay.
Click on edit, and we get to the group policy management editor, click on policies, click on windows settings, click the security settings account policies password policy okay.
Now if we want to make sure that the user cannot use the same password again and again okay we can set our remember password history okay on a domain controller.
The default is 24 okay on a stand-alone domain is actually zero so, for example, if we want to make sure that they could not the same password for at least two or three recess okay wicket-keeper number with their what would do is stay with the folder you disrupted a minimum password age maximum password age.
Basically every 45 days or 30 days using their warnings.
They may need to reset the password.
Otherwise your login okay, so that has little ensure that any change the password every 45 days go for that minimum password age.
So basically if you are zero, they can really set the password immediately okay to keep us saved, shall we say, seven days for the next seven days after a password change.
They will not be the changes again.
I guess we keep seven minimum password length.
You might want to find a lightning characters and characters password must meet complexity, you might want the keep is enabled rid of using a simple demo machine today, so that is fine okay and complexity requirements like uppercase, lowercase numbers of staff.
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