Policy Settings
Enforce password history 2 passwords remembered (cannot use the same password until two other passwords have been used)
Maximum password age 60 days
Minimum password age 1 days
Minimum password length 6 characters
Password must meet complexity requirements Enabled
Password may not contain the user's Account Name or entire Full Name
The password contains characters from three of the following categories
- Uppercase letters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Lowercase letters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
- Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (special characters): (~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|\(){}[]:;"'<>,.?/)
- Currency symbols such as the Euro or British Pound are not counted as special characters for this policy setting.
- Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but is not uppercase or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.