Domain Controller Password Policy Settings

Click local policies to edit the audit policy a user rights assignment or security options.

Domain controller password policy settings. Expand your domain and find the gpo named default domain policy. Double click account policies to edit the password policy account lockout policy or kerberos policy. It is the responsibility of the dcs and databases located on them to filter each and every password that is attempted to be written to the database to ensure the password meets the password policy settings.

This ensures that the members of the domain have a consistent experience regardless of which domain controller they use to log on. Open the group policy management console 2. Right click the default domain policy and click edit.

This is done to keep those settings synchronized across all domain controllers in the domain. Ad is hard coded to directly check the gpo which contains account settings that is enabled. Here s the thing though the password policy could still be using the default domain policy for its settings as it does not strictly follow the normal gpo processing logic.

Because domain controllers share the same account database for the domain certain security settings must be set uniformly on all domain controllers. The following security options are merged. Edit the domain password policy gpo and go to computer configurations policies windows settings security settings account policy password policy and configured the password.

Double click a policy setting to edit it. This password policy is configured by group policy and linked to the root of the domain. This command gets the default domain password policy from current logged on user domain.

Do one of the following. Do not modify the default domain policy or default domain controller policy unless necessary. This command gets the default domain password policy objects from all the domains in the forest.