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Removal of the 16-character limit for passwords in Azure AD

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May 14, 2019
Howdy folks,    Many of you have been reminding us that we still have a 16-character password limit for accounts created in Azure AD. While our on-premises Windows AD allows longer passwords and ...
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Abhimanyu Singh
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May 16, 2019

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Today, I am pleased to announce that we have changed this limit, allowing you to set a password with up to 256 characters, including spaces. You can see more details on password requirements in our password policy documentation. 

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Although the maximum length has been updated in the password policy documentation, it still says that "spaces" are not allowed.

 

Is it or is it not?

 

Characters not allowed
  • Unicode characters.
  • Spaces.
  • Cannot contain a dot character "." immediately preceding the "@" symbol”.