RE: Cant disable password complexity

From: Rashmi.K.Y [MSFT] (v-raky_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/25/04 

Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:54:46 GMT

Hello Will,

Thank you for posting.

I found various resolutions to the similar issue. Please find the solutions
that resolved the issue. Check if any of these applies to your scenario.

Solution 1:
Please check if the 'apply Group Policy' setting is denied either for
'Domain controllers' either in Default Domain policy or Default Domain
controllers policy.

Solution 2:
Check if there is any third party password filter tool is applied.

Solution 3:
Make sure that the block policy inheritance is not enabled on Domain
controllers OU.

Solution 4:
Open the Default Domain Policy, and modify the Password Policy as follows:
Enforce Password History: 0
Maximum Password Age: 0
Minimum password Age: 0
Minimum Password Length: 0
Password must meet complexity requirements: Defined/Disabled
Store Passwords using reversible Encryption: Defined/Disabled

Once the policy is set as above, refresh policy and restart domain
controllers.

Hope the issue is resolved by any of the methods above.

Thank you,

Rashmi

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| I have a slightly quirky problem. I have a pure Windows 2000 Domain with
2
| domain controllers running Active Directory. Neither of the servers show
any
| problems with AD replication, Group policy replication, Browser, DNS,
| Netlogon, Sysvol etc etc…. Nothing in any of the event logs apart from
the
| standard "Ignore this issue its not a problem" type errors e.g event
10006
| DCOM got error "Class not registered " from the computer XXXX when
attempting
| to activate the server: {D99E6E73-FC88-11D0-B498-00A0C90312F3} OR event
36871
| A fatal error occurred while creating an SSL server credential.
|
| DNS is happy; NTFRS is happy etc etc.... Basically no problems show up.
|
| The problem I have occurring is that all of a sudden the servers are
| requiring complex passwords e.g. if you change a password or create a new
| user account etc.
|
| I have used GPOTOOL to check that group policy replication is happy,
which
| it is. I have looked at the default domain policy as well as the default
| domain controller policy and re-tried enabling and disabling all bits of
the
| Password Policy section, in all variations (plus used secedit to apply
the
| settings). The Domain policy is blocked from inheriting the default
domain
| policy as it should be.
|
| However, if you look at the local security policy > password policy on
| either domain controller, it is always listed as NOT DEFINED.
|
| I have also attempted setting the local security policy, and that still
has
| no effect.
|
| Basically, all sections of the group policy will make a change to the
local
| security policy, BUT, it is not possible to set any of the settings in
the
| Password Policy section. This applies to any changes you make in the
Group
| Policy(s) at any level and also to the local security policy. FYI...
there
| are only the 2 policies on the server! If you change any other section of
a
| policy (domain, local, domain cont), it will replicate between the
servers
| and it will apply that section of the policy to any area except the
Password
| Policy, which wont change!
|
| I have re-applied the service pack, as a safety measure and this is on a
| live domain that has been working fine for 2 years now.... so how the
change
| has come about, I am uncertain!
|
| This problem has only come to light as I had to create a new user, which
I
| couldn’t do without a complex password being set. However as I cannot
find
| out what is really going on with the password policy, I cant tell how
long it
| will now be before 300+ users are going to be asked to change their
password,
| and you can imagine the chaos that will happen :-(
|
| As I have now spent 15 hours trying to resolve this, with all possible
| scenarios of applying a password policy (either disabling, enabling, not
| defining...Domain policy, Domain Controller policy, Local Security policy
| etc.etc..) has anyone any thoughts on this as I am completely baffled as
to
| where to look next and unfortunately, my customer isn’t going to accept
that
| "I thought their network needed its security beefing up, so I turned on
| password complexity (sadly, as that would be a great easy option).
|
| Another possibility would be if anyone knows exactly where to flick the
| switch to disable this... Is it in that DLL file in system 32 that
controls
| password complexity.... or an encrypted registry key...or as unlikely as
it
| may be, Active directory through ADSI edit???
|
| Any thoughts and suggestions would be more than welcome on this one!!
|
| Thanks
|
| Will Smith
|
|

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