Retrieve Details of a Fine-Grained Password Policy

Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2

This topic explains how to use the Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell to retrieve the details of a fine-grained password policy.

Example

The following example demonstrates how to retrieve the details of the fine-grained password policy AdminsPSO:

Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy AdminsPSO

Additional information

In addition to the standard Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) attributes, you can retrieve the following extended properties of the Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy cmdlet by using the -Properties parameter:

• AppliesTo

• ComplexityEnabled

• LockoutDuration

• LockoutObservationWindow

• LockoutThreshold

• MaxPasswordAge

• MinPasswordAge

• MinPasswordLength

• PasswordHistoryCount

• Precedence

• ReversibleEncryptionEnabled

For a full explanation of the parameters that you can pass to Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy, at the Active Directory module command prompt, type Get-Help Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy –detailed, and then press ENTER.