The Cincinnati Reds, America’s oldest baseball team, may have one of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) worst pre-season odds to win the World Series, but the team sits alone in first place on Specops’ breached password list. This is according... Read More
Enabling Email Notifications from Specops Authentication
Email notifications sent from the Specops Authentication platform (uReset, Secure Service Desk, Key Recovery) must be sent from an email address in the customer domain. Allowed Domains The sender address must be from an email domain associated with your... Read More
Enabling uReset Password Reset for Active Directory Admin Accounts
The Specops Authentication Gatekeeper Server responsible for writing enrollment information and resetting passwords in AD runs as a low-privilege service account. By default it will not have reset passwords for admin accounts in Active Directory protected by adminSDHolder. For... Read More
Error Saving Identity Service Configuration
When configuring third party identity services (e.g. Duo, Okta, Verify, PingID, Symantec VIP) you may encounter an error after saving the configuration in the Identity Services section of the Specops Authentication Admin Web That shouldn’t happenSomething went wrong, an... Read More
Enabling the Logon Tile for Password Reset
This article will review how to replace the Reset Password link below the password field with a separate user logon tile that launches the password reset page. These steps will work with the Specops Authentication client for both uReset... Read More
Update Certificate Pinning for uReset 7.12 And Earlier (Feb 2021)
On February 2, 2021 at 15:00 GMT Specops will need to renew/replace the certificate for www.ureset.com. Due to the way the uReset 7 Gatekeeper has implemented certificate pinning, customers will need to update pinning information in the registry in... Read More
Wrapping Third Party Credential Providers
The Specops Authentication client operates as a Windows credential provider in order to enhance the user experience when using Specops products from AD-joined Windows workstations. For Specops Password Policy this means improving the user feedback during a CTRL+ALT+DEL password... Read More
uReset Clients Do Not Show Reset Password Link at Logon
When using Specops uReset with the Specops Authentication client, users can initiate the password reset process via a Reset Password link that appears at the windows login and lock screens. This article will review how to troubleshoot situations where... Read More
Running Password Auditor as a Different User
In this article we will review the steps required to run Specops Password Auditor as a different user than the one currently logged into Windows. Newer Windows shortcuts have removed the ability to right-click ‘run as different user’ —... Read More
You cannot enroll for this service
uReset users may report the following message appears when attempting to reset their password: You cannot enroll for this service No Policy has been configured for you for this service. This message indicates that uReset is set to Group... Read More