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rich - how does the change on office 365 (web) get back to the Essentials server so the server knows to lighten up?<br />
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or is lion right?
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rich - how does the change on office 365 (web) get back to the Essentials server so the server knows to lighten up?

or is lion right?

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I walked through the essentials 2012R2 integration with office 365. &nbsp;It made the passwords requirements strong. &nbsp;I don't want that at this point (We're not ready to move to office 365. &nbsp;How do I break / reverse the integration so I can change the password requirements on the essentials server to a lower level
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I walked through the essentials 2012R2 integration with office 365.  It made the passwords requirements strong.  I don't want that at this point (We're not ready to move to office 365.  How do I break / reverse the integration so I can change the password requirements on the essentials server to a lower level

I wan to disconnect the office 365 / Essentials 2012R2 integration

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

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