Can you change the type of Active Directory Password Complexity to be different than MS version

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Here it states that the policy must adhere to

  • Passwords must meet complexity requirements determines whether password complexity is enforced. If this setting is enabled, user passwords meet the following requirements:

  • The password is at least six characters long.

  • The password contains characters from at least three of the following five categories:

    • English uppercase characters (A – Z)

    • English lowercase characters (a – z)

    • Base 10 digits (0 – 9)

    • Non-alphanumeric (For example: !, $, #, or %)

    • Unicode characters

  • The password does not contain three or more characters from the user's account name.

They only setting is to ENABLE or DISABLE this feature.

I was wondering if there is a way to change this policy? IF so where?

Best Answer

You can do so using a Password Filter, but its a pretty complex to do so. See this article on how to do so.

There are a number of third party password filters availible to do this such as: