Contact PDC on logon failure
This policy setting defines whether a domain controller (DC) should attempt to verify the password provided by a client with the PDC emulator if the DC failed to validate the password. Contacting the PDC emulator is useful in case the client’s password was recently changed and did not propagate to the DC yet. Users may want to disable this feature if the PDC emulator is located over a slow WAN connection. If you enable this policy setting, the DCs to which this policy setting applies will attempt to verify a password with the PDC emulator if the DC fails to validate the password. If you disable this policy setting, the DCs will not attempt to verify any passwords with the PDC emulator. If you do not configure this policy setting, it is not applied to any DCs.
Policy Details
- Policy Name
- Netlogon_AvoidPdcOnWan
- Registry Key
- Software\Policies\Microsoft\Netlogon\Parameters
- Value Name
- AvoidPdcOnWan
- Supported On
- At least Windows Server 2003 operating systems or Windows XP Professional
- OMA-URI (CSP)
- ADMX_Netlogon/Netlogon_AvoidPdcOnWanOS Build Version:10.0.22000, 10.0.19043.1202, 10.0.19042.1202, 10.0.19041.1202CSP Version:10.0Conflict Resolution:LastWriteAllowed Editions:EnterpriseEnterprise NProfessionalProfessional NEnterprise EvaluationEnterprise N EvaluationEducationEducation NEnterprise SEnterprise S NEnterprise S EvaluationEnterprise S N EvaluationHolographic BusinessPro Single LanguagePro ChinaPro WorkstationPro Workstation NPro For EducationPro For Education NEnterprisegEnterprisegnServerrdshIotenterpriseIotenterprisesCloudeditionnCloudeditionIotenterpriseskIotenterpriseseval
- Policy State Values
- Enabled: 0Disabled: 1
- Available Languages
- en-us