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I have a frontend which allows the User to change it's AD Password.

1. Is there a Way to get the password policy (for example fine grained) for a specific user and its properties (Length, Complexity...)

2. Is there a Way to check the string "xyz121" against this specific policy?

EDIT: I don't want to check against the current password stored in the active directory. I want to check if the new password would could be safed into active directory. For Example: User types in his NEW password "xyz121" and wants to change it but active directory just allows passwords with at least 8 chars.

Answer 1

Trailing through SO and google came up with this - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/david_leblanc/archive/2007/10/11/checking-password-complexity.aspx

Started from this SO post - Determine AD password policy programmatically

Which led to this SO answer - https://stackoverflow.com/a/10549823/416574

which led to that above blog post. Hope that helps.

(Feel free to not upvote, this just seemed like too much text for a comment, but really no work here but googling).