Re: Password Policy

Best bet is to either buy a 3rd-party tool to generate passwords for you
(that match complexity requirements) or write your own. If you want to
write some code that checks passwords it shouldn't be tough, as the
complexity rules are documented. So instead of depending on an API (there
might be one but I don't know of one as password complexity is implemented
through filters - of which you can write your own, see MSDN for more info.)
just write your own complexity filter to check against.

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Paul Williams
Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
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