Configuring Windows Vista Password Policy

Verify New Password Settings

You can re-open the Local Security Policy to review the settings and make sure that the settings you chose were properly retained.

You should then test out the settings. Either using your own account, or by creating a test account, try to assign passwords that violate the requirements you just set. You may need to test it a few times to try out the various policy settings for minimum length, password history, password complexity, etc.

• Open Windows Local Security Policy Console
• Enforce Password History
• Maximum Password Age
• Minimum Password Age
• Minimum Password Length
• Password Must Meet Complexity Requirements
• Store Password Using Reverse Encryption
• Verify New Password Settings