The following steps will help you enable complex passwords for your network:
- On your domain controller, launch Group Policy Management from inside the Tools menu in Server Manager.
- Expand your forest name and find the name of your domain inside the Domains folder. If you expand your domain name, you will see a Group Policy Object (GPO) in there called the Default Domain Policy. This policy is automatically configured in a new Active Directory environment to apply to all user accounts, so for this recipe, we will modify this GPO to require complex passwords for all of our users.
- Right-click on Default Domain Policy and click Edit...:
You can easily create a new GPO and use it instead of modifying the built-in default policy. ...