How do we often have multiple password policies in Active Directory account management? Of course in the Windows Server 2000 or version of Windows Server 2003 that we managed in the past, we might need to create multiple domains to implement this policy rule. So this will make our administration more complex, and with the advent of Windows Server 2008, this problem is well resolved, we can match different security groups to different password policy rules, so that our management will be more flexible, here, I will share with you how to configure the Multiple password policy feature.
Here's how we configure the Multiple password policy feature:
To create a PSO using ADSI Edit
1 Click Start/admin tools/ADSI Editor;
2 in the Open ADSI Editor window, right-click ADSI Editor/Connect to, as shown in the following figure;
3 In the Connection Settings window that pops up, click OK, as shown in the following figure;
4 in the ADSI Editor window, right-click "Cn=password Settings Container"/"New"/"Object";
5 in the "Create a Image" window, click the Next button, as shown in the following figure;