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Password policies

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- [Instructor] One of the keys to keeping your user accounts secure is making sure that the... You have password policies in place so that you can have secure passwords. To demonstrate this, we're going to go ahead and jump onto a domain controller, and I have one here called LHDC1. Here in the server manager, I'm going to go up to the Tools menu, and I'm going to select Group Policy Management 'cause this is how you apply your password policies is through a group policy. And I will tell you there is one thing that's very interesting about password policies, and that is if I expand my Forest and my domains and my landonhotel.local domain is that even though you're going to see, in just a moment here, that the password policies are configured on computers. Right? It's a computer policy. Believe it or not, you have to do it at the domain level. So, you either have to do it on the default domain policy, or you have to create another policy but at the domain level. It has to be linked to…

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