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Incorrect statement - Suggest removing it

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Like the article mentioned earlier in the article (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Ask-the-Directory-Services-Team/Machine-Account-Password-Process/ba-p/396026) the machine will not update its password unless the change is committed in AD. Therefore the best practice mentioned here did not really make sense.
So I suggest to remove that part and remove the numbered paragraph for the remaining point.
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windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/domain-member-maximum-machine-account-password-age.md
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### 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.
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.
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.
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