Christoffer Andersson–an MVP in Active Directory and a very good friend of mine–recently released the first beta of his Fine-Grained Password Policy Tool. If you are an IT planner or analyst or simply experimenting with the new features of Windows Server 2008 in terms of domain-wise security, you will like to deploy the application. It includes Management Console and PowerShell snap-ins which create and manage Fine Grain Password Policies with complex properties as provided by the latest Server OS.

Binaries: FGPP Beta 1_2228-20070706.0 32-bit, 64-bit

Documents: Original blog post, Quick Start Guide, Overview of Fine-Grained Password Policies

Notes: Contributors to the development of FGPP include Björn Österman and myself.