Policy

History

This setting specifies the number of past PINs that can be associated to a user account that can’t be reused. This policy enables administrators to enhance security by ensuring that old PINs are not reused continually. PIN history is not preserved through PIN reset. The value must be between 0 to 50 PINs. If this policy is set to 0, then storage of previous PINs is not required. Default: 0.

Policy
Pack Microsoft Windows
Category System / PIN Complexity
Policy ID 452975a74f77
Internal name MSPassport_PINHistory

Registry

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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\PassportForWork\PINComplexity\History

Policy notes

This setting specifies the number of past PINs that can be associated to a user account that can’t be reused. This policy enables administrators to enhance security by ensuring that old PINs are not reused continually. PIN history is not preserved through PIN reset. The value must be between 0 to 50 PINs. If this policy is set to 0, then storage of previous PINs is not required. Default: 0.

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