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Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook
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Windows Server 2016 Security, Certificates, and Remote Access Cookbook

by Jordan Krause
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
138 pages
3h 55m
English
Packt Publishing
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How to do it...

The following steps will help you enable complex passwords for your network:

  1. On your domain controller, launch Group Policy Management from inside the Tools menu in Server Manager.
  2. 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.
  3. 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. ...

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