Re: Password complexity via policy

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Sorry, I should have also mentioned that I did an gpupdate /force and did a
reboot as well.

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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Rockn <Rockn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I am trying to set up new accounts in an new AD and am running into
an issue where it is stating that the password cannot be set due to
not meeting the complexity requirements. I have gone into the default
domain policy and disabled all of the complexity settings and age,
etc and it is still not allowing for setting a password without the
complexity requirements.
This is Windows Server 2003 with SP2 applied. Is there some funky
security enabled with SP2 that wasn't part of the initial server
install or is there another location the password complexity is
enforced?
Thanks.

How long did you wait, and have you rebooted?
Are you sure it was the default domain policy in which the policy was set?
Run an rsop.msc to check.



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