Get the resultant password policy for a user.
Syntax
Get-ADUserResultantPasswordPolicy [-Identity] ADUser
[-AuthType {Negotiate | Basic}] [-Credential PSCredential]
[-Partition string] [-Server string] [CommonParameters]
Key
-AuthType {Negotiate | Basic}
The authentication method to use: Negotiate (or 0), Basic (or 1)
A Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connection is required for Basic authentication.
-Credential PSCredential
A user account that has permission to perform this action.
The default is the current user unless the cmdlet is run from an AD PowerShell provider drive
in which case the account associated with the drive is the default.
"User64" or "Domain01\User64" or a PSCredential object.
-Identity ADUser
Specify an AD user object by providing one of the following values.
(The identifier in parentheses is the LDAP display name for the attribute.)
Distinguished Name
Example: CN=GailMoss,OU=europe,CN=users,DC=corp,DC=SS64,DC=com
GUID (objectGUID)
Example: 599c4d2e-f72d-4d20-8a78-030d69495f20
Security Identifier (objectSid)
Example: S-1-5-21-5165297888-301467370-576410423-1803
Security Accounts Manager (SAM) Account Name (sAMAccountName)
Example: GailMoss
The cmdlet searches the default naming context or partition to find the object.
If two or more objects are found, the cmdlet returns a non-terminating error.
This parameter can also get this object through the pipeline or you can set this
parameter to an object instance.
-Partition string
The distinguished name of an AD partition.
The distinguished name must be one of the naming contexts on the current
directory server. The cmdlet searches this partition to find the object defined by
the -Identity parameter.
The following two examples show how to specify a value for this parameter.
-Partition "CN=Configuration,DC=EUROPE,DC=TEST,DC=SS64,DC=COM"
-Partition "CN=Schema,CN=Configuration,DC=EUROPE,DC=TEST,DC=SS64,DC=COM"
In many cases, a default value will be used for -Partition if no value is specified.
-Server string
The AD Domain Services instance to connect to, this may be a Fully qualified domain name,
NetBIOS name, Fully qualified directory server name (with or without port number) or AD Snapshot instance.
Examples: demo.SS64.com demo demoDC02.demo.ss64.com demoDC02.demo.ss64.com:3268
CommonParameters:
-Verbose, -Debug, -ErrorAction, -ErrorVariable, -WarningAction, -WarningVariable,
-OutBuffer -OutVariable.
Get-ADAccountResultantPasswordPolicy gets the resultant password policy object (RSoP) for a user.
The -Identity parameter specifies the AD user. This can be a distinguished name (DN), GUID, security identifier (SID) or Security Accounts Manager (SAM) account name. The identity may also be set with a user object variable, or passed through the pipeline.
A user can be associated with multiple password Policy Objects (PSOs), but only one PSO is the RSoP.
A PSO is
associated with a user when the PSO applies directly to the user or when the PSO applies to an AD group that contains the user.
The resultant password policy gives preference to password policy objects that are applied directly to the user.
When more than one PSO policy applies directly to a user, the RSoP will consider the msDS-PasswordSettingsPrecedence attribute value. The lowest attribute value represents the highest PSO precedence.
The RSoP is defined by the AD attribute msDS-ResultantPSO.
Example
Get the resultant password policy for the user with samAccountName 'GailMoss':
PS C:\> Get-ADUserResultantPasswordPolicy GailMoss
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results” ~ Winston Churchill
Related PowerShell Cmdlets:
Get-adFineGrainedPasswordPolicy - Get one or more AD fine-grained password policies.
Set-adFineGrainedPasswordPolicy - Modify an AD fine-grained password policy.