Password Policy

[keyboards]

Hi, feel like I'm going mad, what does the following mean, ie what have we currently got set and as I think a few of us are all falling over each over getting confused and we're normally pretty good with group policy but think we've had a mare

 

Thanks

 

James

Edited December 20, 2018 by keyboards

[Mako]

It means your user's passwords must be at least 6 characters and they are not stored using reversible encryption.

 

The other settings are not defined and so are left at the default.

 

If you right click> properties the setting and click "Explain" then it will detail what it does, rather than me try and write a wall of text here.

[keyboards]

Thanks, what about password expiry dates? If them settings are as above and the user account in the AD has password never expires not ticked.

[jthompson]

Then the password still won't expire.

Having 'Password never expires' unticked is basically saying 'this account's password ~can~ expire, if Group Policy wants it to'.

[keyboards]

We are seeing sense then, as we keep getting users reporting it's asking them to change passwords