Complex Password Policy not enabled

B

bensalins

Hi,

The Microsoft Complex Passsword Policy states that Password cannot
contain any three
sequential characters from the User Name. This however doesn't seem to
be the case, And I can't figure out why?. I have enabled the Complex
Passsword Policy in the Active Directory, but the AD would still
accept User Name along with some numbers as its Password.


Please Help,

Ben
 
R

rwh

Where did you set the policy? Password policies for domains must be set
at the root of the domain. If you set it anywhere else it won't work.
 
C

chriss3 [MVP]

As well it must be the group policy at the domain level with highest
priority. Best practices is to use the default domain policy, if not a good
reason to do some thing other.

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Regards
Christoffer Andersson
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services


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B

bensalins

Hi

got a Fix for this Problem,
Ran the following command at the command Prompt and its worked.

gpupdate /Force

Ta,

ben

 

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