What is the maximum password length allowed in Office 365?

What is the maximum password length allowed in Office 365?

• 12 characters
• 32 characters
• 24 characters
• 16 characters [Updated answer is 256]

EXPLANATION

Microsoft instead recommends:

• An 8-character minimum password length (Azure AD/Office 365 has a maximum password length of 16 characters for cloud identities)
• Remove character composition requirements (i.e. don't require combinations of uppercase, lowercase, numbers, special characters, etc)
• No password expiration
• Ban common passwords
• Educate users to not re-use corporate passwords for other systems and apps
• Enforce multi-factor authentication
• Enable risk-based multi-factor authentication challenges

EXPLANATION

The limit used to be 16 characters but was recently increased by Microsoft.

SOURCE

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Azure-Active-Directory-Identity/Removal-of-the-16-character-limit-for-passwords-in-Azure-AD/ba-p/565275