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Copper Contributor

Aug 13, 2020

Windows Server 2012R2 password policy

When creating new users I am required to enter a password of 14 characters. I have checked in the default domain policy for the password policy settings and these are not defined so I assume it shou...

Copper Contributor

Aug 13, 2020

Thanks very much HidMov

I did that but it seems to have opened up an even bigger can of worms:( Someone else setup this network and has since left. I can't see anything in the GPO results that is forcing it to 14 characters. Although the default domain policy does not have this set, is it possible that it is making the default 14 rather than 7? I wonder if I should try setting this and see what happens? I don't want to break anything though!

HidMov

Steel Contributor

Aug 13, 2020

Thanks Theresa Stock - very odd. I've not seen any case where the password policy would show as 7 days but revert over to 14, unless there is some kind of 3rd party management app?

In AD Poweshell, could you run the following and let me know the result?

Set-ADDefaultDomainPasswordPolicy -MinPasswordLength 16 -Identity contoso.com

When you run the GPO Result, does it specify the set password length and the winning GPO as per my previous screenshot.

Thanks,

Mark