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Retrieve Details of a Fine-Grained Password Policy

Updated: February 28, 2009

Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2

This topic explains how to use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to retrieve the details of a fine-grained password policy.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to retrieve the details of the fine-grained password policy AdminsPSO:

Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy AdminsPSO

Additional information

In addition to the standard Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) attributes, you can retrieve the following extended properties of the Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy cmdlet by using the -Properties parameter:

AppliesTo
ComplexityEnabled
LockoutDuration
LockoutObservationWindow
LockoutThreshold
MaxPasswordAge
MinPasswordAge
MinPasswordLength
PasswordHistoryCount
Precedence
ReversibleEncryptionEnabled

For a full explanation of the parameters that you can pass to Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy, at the Active Directory module command prompt, type Get-Help Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy –detailed, and then press ENTER.

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