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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)

RSoP uses the attribute value of msDS-PasswordSettingsPrecedence, which is associated with each password policy, to decide the winning policy. A precedence value is an integer value an administrator can define. A lower precedence value means higher priority. If multiple password policies are applied to the same object, the password policy with the lower precedence value wins.

The following list further explains how password policies work in an infrastructure:

  • There are two ways to link an object to a password policy. The first method is via a directly linked policy. The second method is via group membership. If the policy targets a security group, its members will automatically link to the password policy. However, if a fine-grained password policy is linked to an object, it will be the winning policy.
  • If there's no directly linked policy, the object will consider the lowest policy precedence. These policies are inherited from...
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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