From f10f450879495f23657eb13dbc09d25d46d8d033 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vinay Pamnani <37223378+vinaypamnani-msft@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:19:21 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update password-must-meet-complexity-requirements.md --- .../password-must-meet-complexity-requirements.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/password-must-meet-complexity-requirements.md b/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/password-must-meet-complexity-requirements.md index 0166813774..fb87a0fd40 100644 --- a/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/password-must-meet-complexity-requirements.md +++ b/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/password-must-meet-complexity-requirements.md @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Describes the best practices, location, values, and security considerations for The **Passwords must meet complexity requirements** policy setting determines whether passwords must meet a series of strong-password guidelines. When enabled, this setting requires passwords to meet the following requirements: -1. Passwords may not contain the user's samAccountName (Account Name) value or entire displayName (Full Name value). Neither of these checks are case-sensitive. +1. Passwords may not contain the user's samAccountName (Account Name) value or entire displayName (Full Name value). Neither of these checks is case-sensitive. The samAccountName is checked in its entirety only to determine whether it's part of the password. If the samAccountName is fewer than three characters long, this check is skipped. The displayName is parsed for delimiters: commas, periods, dashes or hyphens, underscores, spaces, pound signs, and tabs. If any of these delimiters are found, the displayName is split and all parsed sections (tokens) are confirmed not to be included in the password. Tokens that are shorter than three characters are ignored, and substrings of the tokens aren't checked. For example, the name "Erin M. Hagens" is split into three tokens: "Erin", "M", and "Hagens". Because the second token is only one character long, it's ignored. So, this user couldn't have a password that included either "erin" or "hagens" as a substring anywhere in the password.