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Hi Samcory could you snip the error ? have you consider honeypot ?
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Check the password age requirements, if the min age is set to 1 day you can't change it twice the same day.
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No I dont think thats the problem<br />
When I go into the group policy security this is what it says<br />
Enforce pw history - not defined<br />
max pw age &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;- not defined<br />
min pw age &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - not defined<br />
min pw length &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - &nbsp;8<br />
pw must meet complexity requirements - disabled<br />
store pw using reversible encryption - &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;disabled
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Have you rebooted/run a gpupdate /force since making this change?
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Try a gpupdate /force first, a reboot shouldn't be necessary but good to rule it out!
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did that, still cant change password.<br />
Will reboot tonight.
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Just to confirm, what Group Policy are you changing? Have you checked the SBS password policy as well as the Default Domain policy?
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If you enter this in a cmd prompt:<br />
gpresult /h gpresult.html<br />
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Then type in:<br />
gpresult.html<br />
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This may give you an indicaton
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change done in:<br />
Group policy management editor -domain policy<br />
policies<br />
windows settings<br />
security settings<br />
account policy<br />
password policy
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Have you checked all the other GPOs, like the SBS password policy mentioned before?
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all entries in<br />
Windows SBS CSE Policy - windows settings- security -account policy &nbsp;- password &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; are not defined<br />
WINDows SBS user policy &nbsp;as above -not defined<br />
same for Default domain controller policy
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Thanks Harryhelp the reboot worked<br />
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sam
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Please can someone help we though we had a security breach on our SBS2011 server so after doing various tests and scans we then changed the Administrator password.<br />
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This password was too complex so we tried to change it again, but this time the server kept coming back that we had not met the lenfth and complexity requirements <br />
(which all we tried were over 8 characters long and contained an uppercase letter, a number and a #) <br />
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We then turned off password length and complexity and we are still getting the same message!!<br />
Any help please
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Please can someone help we though we had a security breach on our SBS2011 server so after doing various tests and scans we then changed the Administrator password.

This password was too complex so we tried to change it again, but this time the server kept coming back that we had not met the lenfth and complexity requirements 
(which all we tried were over 8 characters long and contained an uppercase letter, a number and a #) 

We then turned off password length and complexity and we are still getting the same message!!
Any help please

SBS2011 server password problem

Small Business Server (SBS) is a line of server operating systems targeted at small businesses by bundling the operating system with a number of other Microsoft products that would normally need to be purchased or licensed separately. The most notable inclusions are Exchange, SQL Server, SharePoint and ISA/TMG (Microsoft's firewall and proxy server).