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audience: ITPro
ms.collection: M365-security-compliance
ms.topic: conceptual
ms.date: 09/08/2017
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# Password must meet complexity requirements
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### Best practices
> [!NOTE]
> For the latest best practices, please check [this article](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/password-guidance/).
> For the latest best practices, see [Password Guidance](https://www.microsoft.com/research/publication/password-guidance).
Set **Passwords must meet complexity requirements** to Enabled. This policy setting, combined with a minimum password length of 8, ensures that there are at least 218,340,105,584,896 different possibilities for a single password. This makes a brute force attack difficult, but still not impossible.