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Regular Expressions for Passphrases

As a follow up to our Regular Expressions for password complexity blog post, we’ll look at some of the more interesting things you can do with regular expressions. These are typically (but not necessarily) used in organizations using passphrase... Read More

Regular Expressions for password complexity

Specops Password Policy contains a number of granular complexity, history, and dictionary requirements for passwords and utilizes basic C.  However, we cannot always anticipate every customer’s unique password requirements.  In order to give our customers the flexibility to set... Read More

How to create a fine-grained password policy in AD

For the first eight years of Active Directory, the only native way of having multiple password policies in your AD forest, was to have multiple domains. When Windows Server 2008 arrived on the scene, Microsoft introduced the concept of... Read More

Group Policy Caching

How things work: Group Policy Caching

The release of Windows 8.1 and Server 2012 R2 introduced a new Group Policy concept called Group Policy Caching. Its purpose is to reduce the time it takes to perform certain scenarios for synchronous foreground Group Policy refresh. Here’s... Read More

The data present in the reparse buffer is invalid 0x80071128

A number of Specops Deploy App and Specops Inventory customers have recently reported the following error: Exception: System.IO.IOException The data present in the reparse point buffer is invalid. We believe this is a general Microsoft group policy related issue,... Read More

Are my computers patched against Meltdown and Spectre?

Following the discovery of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, we have had a number of enquiries from customers about tools that can identify affected machines in their environment. Microsoft has prepared a PowerShell script that can run on individual... Read More