Remove an AD fine-grained password policy.
Syntax
Remove-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy [-Identity] ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy
[-AuthType {Negotiate | Basic}] [-Credential PSCredential]
[-Server string] [-Confirm] [-WhatIf] [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 ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy
Specify an AD fine-grained password policy object by providing one of the following values.
(The identifier in parentheses is the LDAP provider name for the attribute.)
Distinguished Name
Example: CN=Strict Password Policy,CN=Password Settings Container,CN=System,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: PasswordPolicyLevel1
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.
-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
-Confirm
Prompt for confirmation before executing the command.
-WhatIf
Describe what would happen if you executed the command, without actually executing the command.
Remove-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy removes an AD fine grained password policy.
The -Identity parameter specifies the AD fine grained password policy to remove. Identify a fine grained password policy by its distinguished name, or GUID. You can also set the -Identity parameter to a fine grained password object variable, or pass an object through the PowerShell pipeline.
Remove the Fine Grained Password Policy object named 'MyPolicy':
PS C:\> Remove-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy MyPolicy
Remove the Fine Grained Password Policy object with DistinguishedName 'CN=MyPolicy,CN=Password Settings Container,CN=System,DC=SS64,DC=com:
PS C:\> Remove-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy -Identity 'CN=MyPolicy,CN=Password Settings Container,CN=System,DC=SS64,DC=com'
Remove all File Grained Password Policy objects that contain user in their names.
PS C:\> Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy -Filter {Name -like "*user*"} | Remove-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy
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Set-adFineGrainedPasswordPolicy - Modify an AD fine-grained password policy.
Get-adFineGrainedPasswordPolicy - Get one or more AD fine-grained password policies.