Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators

Password policy

The password policy enforces specific values that control how often the password is changed, how complex it is, and whether users can reuse old passwords. The default values are shown in the following screenshot:

You may want to configure this policy to be more restrictive than the domain-level password policy. The following table provides some recommendations for each of the values:

Policy	Recommended setting	Justification
Enforce password history	30	This makes it less likely that a user will attempt to reuse the same password
Maximum password age	30 days	Passwords for privileged accounts should be ...