Merge pull request #6837 from piaudonn/patch-6

Incorrect statement - Suggest removing it
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Denise Vangel-MSFT
2020-05-29 08:58:04 -07:00
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audience: ITPro audience: ITPro
ms.collection: M365-security-compliance ms.collection: M365-security-compliance
ms.topic: conceptual ms.topic: conceptual
ms.date: 06/27/2019 ms.date: 05/29/2020
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# Domain member: Maximum machine account password age # Domain member: Maximum machine account password age
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### Best practices ### Best practices
1. We recommend that you set **Domain member: Maximum machine account password age** to about 30 days. Setting the value to fewer days can increase replication and affect domain controllers. For example, in Windows NT domains, machine passwords were changed every 7 days. The additional replication churn would affect domain controllers in large organizations that have many computers or slow links between sites. We recommend that you set **Domain member: Maximum machine account password age** to about 30 days. Setting the value to fewer days can increase replication and affect domain controllers. For example, in Windows NT domains, machine passwords were changed every 7 days. The additional replication churn would affect domain controllers in large organizations that have many computers or slow links between sites.
2. Some organizations pre-build computers and then store them for later use or ship them to remote locations. When a computer is turned on after being offline more than 30 days, the Netlogon service notices the password age and initiates a secure channel to a domain controller to change it. If the secure channel cannot be established, the computer does not authenticate with the domain. For this reason, some organizations might want to create a special organizational unit (OU) for computers that are prebuilt, and then configure the value for this policy setting to a greater number of days.
### Location ### Location