thebackroomtechserving up the data back area techs everywhere come across helpful Windows Server 2008 Password Complexity Prerequisites by admin on March 10, 2008I last but not least received around to installing Windows Server 2008 Normal today. I done a Server Core installation, and was suprised how minor interaction I had to have using the installer. It seemed like I answered three or four queries, went to acquire a Diet Coke, and when I arrived back the server was on the logon prompt.
For the duration of the install method I had not been prompted to provide an Administrator password like I’d experienced all through installations of previous Windows Server operating systems. I entered Administator as the User Name and hit enter,
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Immediately Windows prompted me to change the Administrator password. I tried reusing a few of my normal passwords, but they kept getting rejected using the following error:
“Unable to update the password. The value provided for the new password does not meet the length,
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I tried to create a new password several more time, but nothing worked. I last but not least decided to uncover out what the default password policy demands were for Windows 2008.
When this policy setting is enabled, users must create strong passwords to meet the following minimum needs: Passwords cannot contain the user’s account name or parts of the user’s full name that exceed two consecutive characters.
Passwords must be at least six characters in length.
Passwords must contain characters from three of the following four categories: I thought it was fascinating to obtain the following explanation from the same web page:
“Password must meet complexity demands -
This policy setting checks all new passwords to ensure that they meet basic necessities for strong passwords. By default, the value for this policy setting in Windows Server 2008 is configured to Disabled, but it is set to Enabled in a Windows Server 2008 domain for both environments described in this guide.”
That was not the behavior I had experienced with my initial install of Windows Server 2008. This was a core installation and was not a domain member,
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On another note, when you want to log out of Server Core,
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