What is fine-grained password policy?
Fine-grained password policies apply only to global security groups and user objects (or inetOrgPerson objects if they are used instead of user objects). By default, only members of the Domain Admins group can set fine-grained password policies.
How do you check fine-grained password policy is applied?
To confirm which fine-grained policy is applied to a user, search for them in the Global Search in the Active Directory Administrative Center then choose ‘view resultant password settings’ from the tasks menu.
How do I create a fine-grained password policy in Active Directory?
To enable Fine-Grained Password Policies (FGPP), you need to open the Active Directory Administrative Center (ADAC), switch to the tree view and navigate to the System, Password Settings Container. Right-click the Password Settings Container object and select New and click on Password Settings.
How many password policies can a domain have?
Group policy with password policy should be assigned to domain level, not OU, you can have multiple GPO’s with password policies in domain level however only one policy will be applied to all users in their priority.
What does fine grained password policy AD do?
Fine-Grained Password Policy AD supports one set of password and account lockout policies for a domain. Before Windows Server 2008, if you wanted to apply different password and account lockout policies to users, you had to set up a separate domain for them.
Is there a maximum fine grained password age?
I have set a Fine Grained Password Policy with maximum password age of 30 days along with other settings that are similar to existing password policies. I set the precedence number to a lower number so it would have higher precedence than any other pso. It is applied to a security group.
Is there a 30 day limit on passwords?
The password policy specifies a 30 day maximum password age, but when I run the command “net user username /domain” it shows the password expiring more than 30 days into the future. That means that even though the policy is applied to the user, the attributes specified in the policy are not being enforced.
When does the new password policy take effect?
After the change, when I run the command Get-ADUserResultantPasswordPolicy for one of the users added to the group, it shows that the new password policy is applied. However, when I run the net user command, it still shows the password expiration date more than 30 days in the future.
