Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Fine-Grained Password Policies
New for Windows Server 2008 and also included with Windows Server 2012 domains is a feature called fine-grained password policies. This feature is only available in domains operating in Windows 2008 or greater domain functional level. A fine-grained password policy is a password policy that can be defined and applied to a single domain user or a set of domains users that require looser or tighter password policies that the organization’s current domain password policy. This can be a very valuable feature for organizations that require interoperability with legacy systems or applications that require service accounts that cannot adhere to the standard domain password policy. Fine-grained password policies are stored ...
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