The Q&A profile settings affects the Invite users to create/update Q&A profiles enforcement rule. This rule has conditions that state when users should be notified to create or update their profiles. These conditions correspond to the Questions and Answers profile settings. For example, the User’s answers are shorter than required condition corresponds to the Minimum length of answers setting. So, when you change any of the Q&A profile settings, you can then select the corresponding condition in the rule and enforce users to create or update their profiles in accordance with the new settings. For more information, see Invite users to create/update profiles.
Password Manager uses standard Active Directory methods to reset and change password, applying password policies specified in the Active Directory. Thus, resetting or changing password in Password Manager is essentially the same as resetting or changing password using Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC).
If you have configured Password Manager to use One Identity Quick Connect Sync Engine to reset and change passwords in multiple systems, Password Manager will at first reset or change the password in the managed domain. If this operation is performed successfully, then the password will be reset in all connected systems, otherwise Password Manager will attempt to reset the password in the systems in which the password can be reset independently from Active Directory, and all other systems will be skipped.
When you use Password Manager to reset your password, Active Directory does not automatically check the new password against the password history. As a result, the Enforce password history policy setting may have no effect. To ensure that this password policy setting is applied in Active Directory when your password is reset by using Password Manager, the Enforce password history option must be selected in the Reset password in Active Directory and Reset password in Active Directory and connected systems activities.
Password Manager uses two slots from the password history every time a password is reset. For example, if the password history value defines that users cannot reuse any of the last 10 passwords, then Password Manager checks only the last five passwords. Therefore, it is advised that you double the password history value for all managed domains.
When the password history is enforced for resetting passwords, Password Manager resets users' old password to an automatically generated password that complies with password policies. It is required for the user to go through the Quick Connect workflow once again where the Reset password in Active Directory and connected systems activity is configured. This time the password is changed to the one provided by the user. Note that, if an error occurs when changing the password, users may end up with the automatically generated password they do not know.
For more information, see Reset Password in Active Directory.
