Disable password policies in ADLDS (Adam)

Since AD LDS uses the password policies from the local system or the domain, there is no way to set a specific password policy for the AD LDS instance. But there is a way to disable the policy so you could handle the password policy in your own code.

The following command disables the policy

dsmgmt "Configurable Settings" Connections "connect to server localhost:389" q "Set ADAMDisablePasswordPolicies to 1" "Commit changes" q q

Note! My instance of AD LDS is running on "localhost:389". Change it to the server and port that you use.

This nice article explains it in more detail

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Creating a self-signed certificate with private key

Needed to make a self-signed certificate with a private key for a project I working on. After some research I found that the combination of makecert and pvk2pfx did the trick. Use the following commands in Visual Studio Command Prompt

makecert -r -pe -n "CN=Test" -b 01/01/2010 -e 01/01/2020 -sky exchange Test.cer -sv Test.pvk
pvk2pfx.exe -pvk Test.pvk -spc Test.cer -pfx Test.pfx

When executing the commands above you will be asked for some information like password etc. After you are finished the file Test.pfx includes a self-signed certificate with the a private key.

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