Passwords must meet complexity requirements

[GlenJohnson]

I know how to turn on the password's must meet complexity requirements, but I don't know what these requirements are. Do they require one number, upper and lower case letters and special characters? Does anyone know where they are defined? I've been told that I can change them by writing a custom .dll file to replace the default, but if the default meets my requirements, I don't want to bother. I want the requirement to start with an alphabetic character. It must be a minimum of 7 characters and a maximum of 10 characters. (I know I can set the minimum in the security MMC). It must contain one number, may contain A-Z, a-z, 0-9, #, and _. Finally, they must be case sensitive. If the default meets this, then I can just enable it and be done. Thanks.

 

[jjgraf]

Yes the default meets all those rules.

but password length is not a max of 10 I have created passwords up to 35 charcaters long before, I know of no way to change that

go here about the rules

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...896&iterationID=1&sessionID=anonymous|1602409

then go into Q161990 article