October 17, 2014

Windows Server LDAP MaxPwdAge, MinPwdAge

When using AD Explorer software to query Windows Server, on a particular domain, you can see the maximum and minimum days required for password to change. These values show up as HEX values such as:

Max: 0xFFFFDEFF0AA68000
Min: 0xFFFFFF36D5964000

This is how to convert them to actual days:

( 0xFFFFFF36D5964000 - <64-bit value> ) / 0xC92A69C000 + 1 = answer ( in days)

Basically, the time unit here is 100ns (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_time to see how Windows use 100ns as their system time unit). So
   1 day is 24*3600*10,000,000 = 864000000000 = 0xC92A69C000

Starting from an unsigned 64-bit 0 value,
1 day = 0 - 0xC92A69C000 = 0xFFFFFF36D5964000
2 day2 = 0xFFFFFF36D5964000   - 0xC92A69C000  = 0xFFFFFE6DAB2C8000
3 days = 0xFFFFFDA480C2C000
...
41 days = 0xFFFFDFC835104000
42 days = 0xFFFFDEFF0AA68000
43 days = 0xFFFFDE35E03CC000
44 days = 0xFFFFDD6CB5D30000
...
89 days = 0xFFFFBA10413C4000
90 days = 0xFFFFB94716D28000

So for the above example:

Max: 42 days
Min: 1 day

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