Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Managing Active Directory with Policies

Many Group Policy settings detailed in the previous sections of this chapter for computer and user management apply only to domain environments. Group Policy can and is also used to manage security and configuration settings within Active Directory. Many settings apply to server role configurations to standardize security and configurations, but one main configuration of the Active Directory domain group policies is to set the password policy for all the users in the domain. To configure the setting values for the domain password policy, the default domain policy needs to be edited. The password policy settings are contained in the Computer Configuration\Policies\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Account ...