How to Configure the Password Policy Settings
To change the password policy settings in Windows Server 2022, you can follow these steps:
- Open the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
- Expand the Domains folder, choose the domain whose policy you want to access and choose Group Policy Objects.
- Right-click the Default Domain Policy GPO and click Edit.
- Navigate to Computer Configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Account Policies -> Password Policy.
- Change “Relax minimum password length limits” to Enabled
- Change “Minimum password length audit” to the number of characters you want the minimum password length to be.
- Change “Minimum password length” to to the number of characters you want the minimum password length to be.