humbletech99 Posted December 4, 2007 Report Share Posted December 4, 2007 I have a Windows 2003 Active Directory domain and am trying to increase the password complexity requirements.However, it seems as though the password complexity requirements are an all or nothing setting. Either I can choose to have no password complexity enforced or users must use 3 out of the 4 character types which is actually pretty difficult to think up, remember and not write down etc.Is there a way that I can enforce password creation of passwords that meet 2 out of 4 of the character types? (ie any 2 out of the 4 of lowercase, uppercase, numbers and symbols) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickedadmin Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 change it in group policy under "computer configuration:windows settings:Security settings:Account Policies:Password Policy"and change the Minimum password length. I don't know how many computers you have but you can run "gpupdate /force" on each system or make a logon script with that command so all computer will update group policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
humbletech99 Posted December 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 errr, that is exactly the problem though, it allows you to enforce password complexity requirements as 3 out of 4 of the character types but not 2 out of 4 which is what I am looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wickedadmin Posted December 5, 2007 Report Share Posted December 5, 2007 Oh sorry. I read that while I was having my coffee this morning. I guess I wasn't fuly awake. :D I'm not sure if that can be changed. I looked at my server to see, but there's nothing to make changes for that. Maybe call Microsoft ask them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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