Re: Password is "too recent to change"

The password policy that generates this message is called Minimum password
age - x days - you cannot change the password within x days from last
change. The default value on Vista probably differs from the one on your
previous OS.

Thanks

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"Spicy Mikey" <Maz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We have a "wizard" that deploys and configures a SQL 2005 instance for our
application. Among other things, it resets the SA password to a strong
password that is unknown to the client.

It works fine except now with installations on Vista. When the password
is
set by the script it gets an error stating "Password Validation Failed.
The
password for the user is too recent to change."

I've never had this problem before. We need to get around it but I see no
settings in SQL to adjust that. I also don't see any settings in Local
Policies for Vista that require a password exists for a certain amount of
time.

Anyone run into this yet and/or have a suggestion to solve it?
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Maz


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