Password Policies

You can use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to manage your password policies in Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). The topics in this section explain how to use the Active Directory module to accomplish many of the common tasks that are associated with password policy management:

• Create a New Fine-Grained Password Policy
  
  
• Retrieve Details of a Fine-Grained Password Policy
  
  
• Search for Fine-Grained Password Policies
  
  
• Modify a Fine-Grained Password Policy
  
  
• Apply a Fine-Grained Password Policy
  
  
• Remove a Fine-Grained Password Policy
  
  
• Delete a Fine-Grained Password Policy
  
  
• Get Resultant Password Policy of a User
  
  
• Find All Groups and Users to Which a Fine-Grained Password Policy Applies
  
  
• Retrieve Details of a Default Domain Password Policy
  
  
• Modify the Default Domain Password Policy