Password Policy Deployment

Hello All,
How to Deploy the password Policy to the AD target System.
Thanks

I know this is very old but I’m trying to clean up old posts. Did you ever solve this? If so it would be good if you could post the solution to assist others. If not, at this
stage, as nobody has answered, I would recommend that you call Intune support if the issue still exists.
You will find your local Intune support number here
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How can I deploy password policy to a specific group?

Dear All,
I would like to deploy password policy to specific OU for testing purpose. As I know password policy only can setup in
Default Domain Policy or new created policy and save at the root of domain. Is there any method for me to test the password policy for specific OU? Thanks.
Frankie

Hi,
As Vivian said, Fine grained password policy cannot be applied directly to an OU.
Instead you can create a global security group in the OU and apply the fine grained password policy.
For example, if you need to apply a password policy for "Sales" OU, you can create a global security named "Sales Users" and assign the Fine grained password policy to this group. Then you can add the users to be tested in the "Sales"
OU as members of this group.
Checkout the below link on the deployment scenario of Fine grained password policy,
http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/10/07/fine-grain-password-policy-for-active-directory-2008-domain-does-not-apply.aspx
FYI - To activate the fine grained password policies, you need to raise your domain functional level to Windows Server 2008 or higher.
Regards,
Gopi
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802.1x, IP Phones, MAB and AD password policy

I am currently working on an 802.1x pilot. I have successfully deployed certificates for PCs and users and I'm able to assign VLAN etc in a reliable fashion.
I would like to enable MAC Authentication Bypass on the voice VLAN for IP phones. The problem is, when I create a user with the phones MAC address as a user name, or AD Domain policy does not allow the password to also be the mac address. Disabling this policy temporarily for adding these users is not a credible solution for us. I'd rather not use third party software that allows for diversity in AD password policy.
I've seen it implied that the switch (3560 in my case) can be configured to send the Radius secret rather than the device MAC address as the device's password, is this true? If so, how?
Thanks!

With MAC-Auth-Bypass, the end station (phone in your case) doesn't interact with the auth method at all. The switch authenticates the MAC after being learned by the switch on behalf of the end-station.
This is a limitation in Windows Server today. This can be controlled through a GPO in Server 2008. Another option(s) is to store the "phone user accounts" directly on the AAA server or another database that allows the ability for this.
Also, to authenticate a phone at all, and to support PCs, you need to configure Multi-Domain-Authentication (MDA) on the 3560. See here:
<http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk814/technologies_configuration_example09186a00808abf2d.shtml#MDA>
Hope this helps,

Best way to force password policy on users within 1-2 weeks?

We have a Server 2008 R2 domain.
I'd read that the password policy in GPO is only available for Computer Configuration, not User Configuration? Is that correct?
If so, that's not very flexible and will make things trickier for us.
And regarding enforcing a password policy with a GPO on our local domain, do you know of a way to force users to change their passwords within say 1 week? (the only options I know of are on the AD User account properties check a box "User
must change password at next logon" (then you'd have to force them to log out) OR relying on AD's internal formula:
webactivedirectory.com/.../how-active-directory-calculates-account-password-expiration-dates . The problem I see with the latter is if your user hasn't changed their pw for a year you'd have to wait a year+how many days you set for max password
age?
spnewbie

To add, the password policy is applied at the domain level and only works at the domain level. It's not the fact that it's at the "Computer Level" or "User Level" or not, it's the fact that it's only set at the domain level.
Account policies (Password, Lockout and Kerb), are all under the Computer Config because it forces it to apply to all user accounts that access all machines.
If you tried to create a password policy at any other level (any OU), it won't work. The only option is to use PSOs, as Mahdi pointed out.
As for that Spiceworks thread, I would suggest to post a question about a specific product to the product vendor's support forum for accurate responses.
Here's an excerpt from MOC 6425C Configuring and Troubleshooting Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, page 10-8 (and this applies to all versions of AD):
Active Directory supports one set of password and lockout policies for a domain. These policies are configured in a GPO that is scoped to the domain. A new domain contains a GPO called the Default Domain Policy that is linked to the domain and that includes
the default policy settings for password, account lockout, and Kerberos policies. You can change the settings by editing the Default Domain Policy GPO.
The best practice is to edit the Default Domain Policy GPO to specify the password policy settings for your organization. You should also use the Default Domain Policy GPO to specify account lockout policies and Kerberos policies. Do not use the Default
Domain Policy GPO to deploy any other custom policy settings. In other words, the Default Domain Policy GPO only defines the password, account lockout, and Kerberos policies for the domain. Additionally, do not define password, account lockout, or Kerberos
policies for the domain in any other GPO.
The password settings configured in the Default Domain Policy affect all user accounts in the domain. The settings can be overridden, however, by the password-related properties of the individual user accounts. On the Account tab of a user's Properties dialog
box, you can specify settings such as Password Never Expires or Store Passwords Using Reversible Encryption. For example, if five users have an application that requires direct access to their passwords, you can configure the accounts for those users to store
their passwords by using reversible encryption.
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Password Policy - Mixed servers 2003 and 2008

I Need help!!!!
So this is my situation. I'm trying to enforce a Company Wide Password Policy via GPO but running into problems. We have no current Password Policy in place (This is the only one). I'm attempting to use the default global policy in Server 2008 and I'm
testing the GPO on a specific security group, but does not seem to work. It will prompt to change the password, but the other requirements aren't being enforced.
This is what I'm trying to enforce.
Expire after: 90 days
Complexity: Enabled
Cant reuse last: 12 password
Lockout time: 15 minutes
Lock out after: 5 attempts
Minimum of :8 characters
Infrastructure: We have a mix of 2003 and 2008 servers. I'm using our 2008 server to enforce the GPO.
Once I apply the GPO to a specific security group, it will prompt to change the password for the users in that group, but will not enforce all the other policies. This is a major project and we cant deploy this policy all at once (Helpdesk wouldn't
be able to handle the call volume) so we decided to deploy it by departments/Security groups. We also tried
We also tried using a fine-grained password policy but just like the GPO, it was only enforcing the password change aspect and not the other requirements like a minimum of 8 characters. Can any help!!!!

> What if I apply the GPO on the domain root level, and then in the
> delegation tab, exclude certain groups until we are ready for it to
> apply to that department? Will hat work?
No. Read again - in 2003, there is ONE password policy for the DOMAIN,
not for individual accounts.
Technically this works the following way: Password policies are picked
up by every member computer. But on these, password policies only apply
to LOCAL accounts, not to domain accounts.
On the other hand, there are Domain Controllers. The PDC emulator is the
only one of these that will pick up Password policies - and only if they
are linked to the domain. And so, these apply to all "local" accounts on
the PDC, which in fact are the domain accounts.
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What is the new password policy?

What is your new password policy? All you state on the page where it forces us to change without being able to continue is a meter that says whether its strong enough. How about actually stating what the requirements are on that page? Even when clicking on the Password Help link, it doesn’t state what the requirements are. This can be very frustrating to users trying to create a password model.
After toying around with some passwords, I am guessing it is just like 12 characters regardless of whether they are upper/lower case, numbers, or special characters. This policy is really lacking for any type of real security measure.

Hello tmanXX,
Internet security is a topic of much importance and discussion these days. In order to ensure that you and our other customers have the most enjoyable and secure experience, we recently established new requirements for passwords on BestBuy.com. Even so, you ask very good questions about the standards that we have established.
When changing your password on our website, we have a visual indicator to verify your password strength against our criteria. We recommend a variety of letters (upper and lower case), numerals, and symbols deployed randomly for best results. Our standards are not published to add a further obstacle to those who might try to use such information with ill intent. I apologize for any aggravation that you may have endured as a result.
Please know that I'm grateful for your feedback on our password standards and that you took the time to pose your questions and concerns.
Sincerely,
John|Social Media Specialist | Best Buy® Corporate
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Questions on Password Policy

Hi All,
I have couple of questions on password policy behavior upon OAM-EBS integration.
Currently "Applications SSO Auto Link User" options is set to "Disable" in my env.
Please confirm if following is the right understanding.
1.     Upon OAM-EBS integration, user whose EBS account is linked with OID cannot change their password from EBS console. EBS password policy (Password expiry etc) will be overridden by OID policy.
2.     EBS user`s whose account is not linked with OID can change the password and EBS password policy will be applicable for that user.
3.     To have the user use EBS password policy he must be unlinked by setting up USER_GUID attribute to null in FND_USER table.
Thanks in advance.
-Sam

Sam,
Your understanding is correct -- Please see these docs.
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Thanks,
Hussein

How do you apply the same password policy to every PDF document you create with inDesign?

All,
Adobe peeps!,
I don't know if this is really supported with inDesign 5.5, but here is my my use case:
I constantly create more than 10 PDFs a day using inDesign
On all PDF's I create, i want to apply password security to protect them
But in order to do so, within inDesign, I am always forced to go to the "security dialogue" pane to set up the same permission and passwords over and over again
This gets tiring :/
So what I am hoping to do is the following:
Like acrobat, I want to create a password policy within inDesign
I want all PDFs created to have such a password policy be automatically applied
I know acrobat supports something like this (http://help.adobe.com/en_US/acrobat/pro/using/WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7d68.w.h tml), but, unless I may have missed something, the Acrobat feature is limited. That is, the help link does not tell me how to automatically do this with Acrobat either (the link does not explain to me how to "automatically apply the same password security policy to every PDF document I save within the application). I think the only way to do so is via "Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management ES", but for non server users, I am hoping there is another way.
So my questions are:
Is it possible to create password security policies in inDesign?
Is it possible to apply the same password security policy to every PDF i create in inDesign?
If not, can I change default settings within Acrobat ProX to automatically apply a password security policy everytime I save a PDF?
If all fails, do you guys know of any extensions that can support this?
Any help would be great. Thanks!

Steve,
Thanks for your notes. To follow up on your response.
Bummer. I kinda had a hunch at this inDesign limitation.
I have been aware of the method for setting up of a security policy within Acrobat. While this feature does cut down some of the work involved in creating and applying password policies to pdfs, what I am looking for with Acrobat is to apply the same password policy to every document I save from the app. Automatically. Without having to manualy select a policy.
I think my solution will have to lie in me creating some sort of script to help support this need. I don't think Acrobat Pro X has the capabilities to allow me to tinker with, say, creating a save PDF preset that will allow me to automatically apply a password policy.
PS. I am using acrobat pro x.

Different Password Policy for Different User Groups in ACS 4.2

Hi All,
Can some one provide a solution for the below requirement?
We do have ACS 4.2 appliance managing firewalls of different clients. The users are common i.e, helpdesk administrators. One of the client came up with setting different password policy for managing their devices i.e, the client wants to have min 15 characters as password length. We do have currently 8 characters as min password length. Can we change the password policy to min 15 characters only for managing the firewalls of this client whereas for all other client firewalls we feel better to have 8 characters as min password length?
It seems that these password policies are global & affects all the users.
This is something like, having two sets of password (for each user) policy depending on the client which he is going to manage.
For my knowledge, i think that this is not possible. But, thought to cross-check with experts!
-Jags.

Hi jags,
Yor're correct. Password policy on ACS will affect all internal user. We can't create different password policies for diferent clients/connections/set_of_users
Password validation options apply only to user passwords that are stored in the ACS internal database. They do not apply to passwords in user records in external user databases; nor do they apply to enable or admin passwords for Cisco IOS network devices.
HTH
Regards,
JK

How to ignore the password policy in a custom workflow?

Hi,
We have a custom workflow which is called via SPML to provide 'Administrator Change Password' functionality in a portal.
Our password policy sets the String Quality rules and Number of Previous Passwords that Cannot be Reused. But we like to bypass the password policy when the password administrators (who have a admin role with a capability - 'Change Password Administrator'). At least, restriction ' Number of Previous Passwords that Cannot be Reused' need to be ignored (But password need to be added to the history... cannot disable adding passwords to history).
Please advice me how it could be achieved?
The workflow steps:
1. Checkout 'ChangeUserPassword' view for the user as an administrator
2. Set the new password in the view, set true to view.savePasswordHistory
3. Set password on the resources
4.Checkin the view
Thanks
Siva

Thanks eTech.
My main goal is to skip the password history check (new password can't be a last used 10 passwords) when admin change password workflow is launched. As you suggested , I created a special password policy exactly as our regular password policy excluding "Number of Previous Passwords that Cannot be Reused" setting.
Then before change the password of a user as admin, special policy is attached , password changed, and user's password policy is reverted back to regular one. The issue is, as the special policy does not enforce the password history check, the whole password history of the user is wiped out from the user object when the password is changed by admin change password workflow. We don't want this to happen.
Please guide me whether is anyway to achieve just ignoring the password history without any other impact on user.
Is adding passwords to user object's password history list is triggered by "Number of Previous Passwords that Cannot be Reused" setting of the password policy??
Thanks
Siva

Problems Implementation Password Policy on OIM 9.1.0

Hello,,,
Please help me,
i was create password policy on OIM, i inject that pass policy to one of resource object, i create object form and process form with same configuration ( field table ), i use data flow to transmit the data between object form and process form..
i set process definition with check AUTO SAVE FORM, and AUTO PRE-POPULATE,
the Problems is :
1. When i try to do provisioning process ( with delegated admin : xelsysadm ) to that resource object (target system) , after admin submit , status process is provisioning, and the detail is System Validation : Pending
2. Then i try to remove password policy on resource object, and i try again to do the provisioning, and the process working fine, status process provisioned, detail process
system validation : completed, Create user : completed
why it'is happen ?
that the important point is, why AUTO SAVE FORM cannot working fine if i inject Password Policy on resource Object...
Warm regards,
Ricky R
Manila

When you say you have checked auto prepop means that there are pre pops attached to certain fields on your process form that you want to be auto triggered before provisioning commences. So i'm assuming that you are pre-populating password field. Is the password value that you are prepopping the field with conform to the standards of the password policy? If not that could be the reason why your provisioning process isnt getting kicked off. you will need to supply a password (either manually or if you want to automate it (pre pop it)) that coforms to the password policy defined on the resource object. Also i think the name of the password field must be _PASSWORD.

Group Policy Deployment Acrobat Standard XI Version 11

I was able to successfully create a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 Group Policy that would be able to distribute the Adobe Reader Application using the Adobe Customization Wizard XI. I tried to use the same procedure from the Adobe Acrobat Standard 11 download from the adobe licensing site and was unable to get the Group Policy to work. The error message that I am getting is...
The install of application Adobe Acrobat XI Standard 11.0 from policy Deploy Adobe Acrobat 11 failed. The error was : %%1603
This is the procedure that I created for deployment of Adobe Acrobat XI using Group Policy.
How to create a group policy deployment of Adobe Acrobat XI
Overview:
This procedure covers the steps needed to create a group policy that will deploy the Adobe Acrobat installation.
Requirements
•    Windows 2008 Group Policy
•    Adobe Acrobat Customization Wizard
     o    ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobat/win/11.x/11.0.00/misc/CustWiz11000_en_US.exe
•    Adobe Acrobat XI (Version 11)
     o    download from adobe account
Procedure:
1.    Download the Adobe Acrobat XI package.
2.    Extract the contents of the Adobe Acrobat XI package.
a.    Type msiexec.exe /a AcroStan.msi
b.    Click Next
c.    Put in the Network Location Share where everyone can extract the installation.
d.    Click Install
e.    The package will then extract to the network location as indicated above.
f.    Click Finish, once the installation has completed.
g.    Open the Adobe Customization XI Wizard, and customize the package by selecting the AcroStan.msi file.
h.    Customize the AcroStan.MSI installation file
i.    Default viewer of PDF files: Make Acrobat the Default PDF Viewer
ii.    Remove previous versions of Acrobat
iii.    Run Installation: Silently
iv.    If reboot is required at the end of installation: Suppress reboot
i.    Shortcuts: Remove the desktop Shortcut
j.    Online and Adobe Services: Disable Product Improvement Program: checked.
k.   Generate Transform File
i.    Click Transform > Generate Transform File
ii.   Create an Setup.Ini file in the folder of the Distribution Package.
iii. Name the Transform File something useful like “CompanyConfigs”.
3.    Create a Group Policy to deploy the software package. It is usually best to have a group policy for each software installation package.
a.    Update the Domain Default Policy with Always install with elevated privileges. This will allow all software deployment packages to install.
i.    Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Installer > Always install with elevated privileges : Enabled.
b. Create a Group Policy to enable Windows 7 Verbose Mode
i.    Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > System > Verbose vs normal status messages : Enabled.
c.    Create a Group Policy for the Software Installation
i.     Computer Configuration > Policies > Software Settings
ii.    Right click and select New > Package
iii.   Click the AcroRead.msi
iv.   Click Advanced
v.    Click the Modifications Tab and click Add
vi.   Optional: Click the Uninstall this application when it falls out of the scope of management.
Note: This setting can be used to uninstall the application if the group policy ever changes in that the application should be removed.
vii.    The package is now created …
4.    Test the Client in a Virtual Machine
a.    Go to a windows client and run “gpupdate /force”.
b.    The system will then respond that it needs to restart the computer.
c.    Type Yes, and allow the computer to reboot.
d.    If Group Policy is not setup to allow for verbose messages in Windows 7 then the user will just see “Please wait…”, if verbose message is enabled the user will see “Installing Adobe Acrobat…”.
Can someone please tell me what I am missing to get the group policy deployed? It has the same permissions as the Adobe Reader folder and I have done everything exactly the same, except that Adobe Standard has the license number, and owner information included in the Transform file (.mst).
Thank you.

Your case isn't unique. We've heard this a lot. While Acrobat has a small, very small percentage of settings available in the ADMX files,
in case you don't know, PolicyPak software has a solution to manipulate, basically, near 100% of the settings in Acrobat Reader and Professional.
You're welcome to check out how it works. These videos are for Acrobat X, but there is also tempaltes in the download for XI.
Here are links to the pages with full how-to videos:
http://www.policypak.com/products/manage-acrobat-reader-with-group-policy.html
and
http://www.policypak.com/products/manage-acrobat-x-pro-and-acrobat-x-standard-using-group- policy.html
You can be up and running in 20 minutes, but note, it's NOT a template.. PolicyPak is full application management and lockdown system.

How to create a password policy for password syntax?

Hi,
I need to apply a password policy in OID that checks the password syntax. We need to verify that the each password contains at least three of the four character groups (Capital Letters / Small Letters / Numbers / Special Characters). In OID, I may only check for minimum Length and a min Number of Numbers. Is there an easy way to do this? (Plugin in OID?)
For the Web-Part (eg. Portal) its quite easy, as we may create a Javascript to check the syntax on the "change password" page, but as we have diffrent types of access, we want to get the rule applied in one place.
Thanks for help
Alex

Hi,
In addition to Martin’s suggestions, we can also choose to change the scope of the existing GPO with Security Filtering.
Regarding Security Filtering, the following article can be referred to for more information.
Security filtering using GPMC
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc781988(v=WS.10).aspx
Filter Using Security Groups
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc752992.aspx
Best regards,
Frank Shen

Set Password Policy For System Administrator Account in UCCE Servers

Hi All,
We want to setup a password policy ( expires in 30 days) for the local administrator account in all our UCCE servers.
We found that the all the UCCE services are running in local system account except logger and distributor( these services are running in domain user account).
Is it a supported configuration ? Are there any impacts with this setting ?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Thanks and Regards,
Thammaya

Hi,
what is the UCCE (~ ICM) version? Is there OS hardening applied?
By the way, yes, if you mean the local "administrator" account, you can do whatever you want to do with it, provided you don't lock yourself out - this should not happen, naturally, having all ICM servers in the domain and you can always use the domain admin (or a user belonging to the domain admins group).
By the way, I don't really see the meaning of having a local administrator account being enabled. :-)
G.

How to force password policy requirements on password resets for user accounts reset by the Administrator?

OS: Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
Domain Level: 2008
Forest Level: 2000
We have Domain Administrators in our domain that reset passwords for user accounts, and the passwords the Administrators set them to are not being enforced follow our default domain password policy. For example, I log on the domain controller, as an administrator
and can reset a password for a user account to be blank.
Is there a reason Domain Administrator password resets for user accounts are not enforced by our default domain password policy? Is there a way to enforce this on password resets by Domain Admins?

Do you have fine grant password policy? If not ; by default all the usrs are effected by domain level password policy even domain admins,
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