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Specops Password Policy

How do I create multiple policies for Password Policy for different user groups?

For the initial policy Create your policy you will use for this policy and tag the policy where you would like it applied within the Active Directory structure. The security filtering will be Authenticated users which for most cases is fine: For an additional policy Create your policy you will use for this policy and...

Breached Password Protection Complete scanning. The number of Email notifications sent are less then compromised passwords found.

After a Breached Password Protection Complete scanning the results are showing less email notifications sent then compromised passwords found. Possible reasons for this 1. A users password has been caught as breached by the complete list in the past and the “User must change password during next logon” setting has been ticked on the user...

How do I upgrade Password Policy?

How do I upgrade password policy steps are as below: 1.Navigate to https://specopssoft.com/support/en/password-policy/download.htm and download the file 2. Save and Run the Setup Assistant locally to a machine where you administer Group Policy. The setup files will be extracted to the C:\Temp directory by default. 3.Double click SpecopsPasswordPolicy.Setup.exe to launch the Setup Assistant. 4. The setup assistant...

The installed license does not include support for Breached Password Complete Continuous Scan

This may happen when you upgrade from an older version to 7.11 and import the new Continuous Scan license file. To fix: Launch Active Directory Users and Computers and ensure these 2 options are checked: Then navigate under the System>Specops>Password Policy folder and delete the licensing folder: From there, launch Specops Password Policy domain administration...

How do I deny a group from receiving my Specops Password Policy

This is useful if you are applying it to a wide scope of a domain, but rather than exclude an OU, you can choose to exclude by a Security group. If you have a security group in mind you can use that one or create one in Active Directory Users and Computes. You will then...
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