Re: Password Complexity Problem

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From: MC (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:14:38 -0700

Brad,
    Thanks for the repsonse, however I have tried it all.
It's just not taking effect. Any other ideas?
>-----Original Message-----
>Not sure if you have already tried this but go to your DC
and start, run, secpol.msc. Under account policy/password
policy change "passwords must meet complexity
requirements" to disabled and test from a workstation by
forcing the policy to the computer (open a cmd prompt and
type gpupdate /force) then try to reset the password.
>
>Bradley Fox
>Sr. Network Administrator
>MCSE - W2K
>
>>>> MC<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> 07/29/04
09:58AM >>>
>Hi there,
> I applied the securedc template to one of my DC's
>which also enabled password complexity requirements which
>is NOT something I want in my environment. The policy
has
>already replicated to my other DC's 5 in all. I know
have
>users reporting that their passwords have expired and
>cannot log on. I cannot change their passwords back
>either because of the requirments. I went into the
>Default Domain Policy and changed all the password
>settings to either disabled or not applied. Rebooted
>every DC and am still having the problem with the
>passwords. Is there something else that needs to get
done
>to disable all the password complexity requirements? Is
>there something in the registry that also has to be
>changed? Please help, In a dire situation.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>

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