Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook

Requiring complex passwords in your network

With the tools that attackers have available today, simple passwords should be outlawed by every company. Turning on the requirement for complex passwords in your network is pretty simple; the hard part is knowing where to find the setting. We are going to require complex passwords by making a change inside Group Policy. Later in this book, we are going to do a lot of things inside Group Policy, but the requirement for complex passwords is so common that I felt it to be a general security item rather than something to be lumped alongside other Group Policy tasks. So we will be using Group Policy in a step-by-step fashion; combining this recipe with the chapter on Group Policy will give you even more ...