Hi, I'm just mentioning this in passing, assuming you already found
the answer in the Group Policy thingy. Pass phrase length is far more
superior than complexity. Password complexity encourages folks to
write their passwords down. Suboptimal. Pass phrases are easy to
remember and resistant to password crackers.

Ja,
Torsten

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 09:32, <dgonzalez.itpro (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> We have password complexities set on our domain; minimum password length is 8 and all XP users and Windows 2003 servers.
>
> I can set my password to 9-10 characters, but if I try to set it for 10+ characters, they get the error message that they do not meet the complexity requirements.
>
> I have searched Microsoft documentation, and find minimum length requirements. I think I saw something about 28 characters, and even 127 characters.
>
> Does anyone know if there is a max password length?
>
> We would like to keep the minimum 8 characters, and the maximum varied at the users discretion. Can this be done?
>
>
> Thanks
>

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