Re: What are the complexity requirements in AD?

From: SA (nospam_at_nospam.nospam)
Date: 07/07/04


Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:00:26 -0400


Thank you to you both.

"Arek Iskra [MVP]" <arek_nospam@arekiskra.com> wrote in message
news:uMVltiDZEHA.3304@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> This is controlled by two parameters in Group Policy:
>
> 1) Password Complexity
> 2) Minimum Password Length
>
> By default, both of them are enabled in Windows 2003 Server
>
> In general, complex password must be X character long (this is controlled
by
> 2)) and must contain characters from at least 3 of the following groups:
> a.. English uppercase characters (A through Z)
> b.. English lowercase characters (a through z)
> c.. Numerals (0 through 9)
> d.. Non-alphabetic characters (such as !, $, #, %)
> --
> Arek Iskra
> Microsoft MVP for Windows Server
>
> "SA" <nospam@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
> news:ukZzTrCZEHA.2844@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> >
> > I am trying to figure out what the password complexity requirements are
in
> > Windows 2003 (i.e. how many special characters, numbers, etc.)
> >
> > -SA.
> >
> >
>
>



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