Policy

Disable password strength validation for Peer Grouping

Microsoft Windows

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Disable password strength validation for Peer Grouping
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
Network > Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Networking Services
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

By default, when a Peer Group is created that allows for password-authentication (or the password for such a Group is changed), Peer Grouping validates that the password meets the password complexity requirements for the local system. Thus, it will not allow any passwords to be used for a Peer Group that are weaker than what would be allowed for a login password. This setting controls this validation behavior. If set to 1, then this validation will not be performed and any password will be allowed. If set to 0, the validation will be performed.

Internal name
GROUPING_DisablePasswordPolicyEnforcement
Policy ID
37783f740174
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\policies\Microsoft\Peernet
Value name
IgnoreDomainPasswordPolicyForNewGroups
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\policies\Microsoft\Peernet
Value name
IgnoreDomainPasswordPolicyForNewGroups
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

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