password-policy

Doing a lot of investigation into password policies available in Windows Server 2003 and 2008 at the minute, plus some of the third-party solutions available around this area. One of the reasons I’ve never myself recommend using the ‘Complexity On’ feature in Windows Server is the sheer difficulty in trying to explain to users that you need to use characters from at least three of the following four groups: Uppercase Lowercase Digits Special Characters They typically switch off as soon as you get to the …at least three….