How to Configure the Password Policy Settings

To change the password policy settings in Windows Server 2022, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
  2. Expand the Domains folder, choose the domain whose policy you want to access and choose Group Policy Objects.
  3. Right-click the Default Domain Policy GPO and click Edit.
  4. Navigate to Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Account Policies -> Password Policy.
  5. Change “Relax minimum password length limits” to Enabled
  6. Change “Minimum password length audit” to the number of characters you want the minimum password length to be.
  7. Change “Minimum password length” to to the number of characters you want the minimum password length to be.