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Specops Password Policy, Password Reset, and uReset/Specops Authentication all use leaf objects under user accounts for the purposes of storing user specific information — for Password Policy this includes password history and length-based password age information; for Password Reset and uReset/Specops Authentication the leaf object contains user enrollment data. The advantage of using a leaf...

Specops Password Reset web runs within IIS, typically under the Default Web Site. Specops recommends using a certificate issued by a commercial or enterprise internal certificate authority to secure traffic to the web server, and if doing so, the administrator of that system should be able to provide guidance on how to create a certificate...

In Specops Password policy administrative tools or in Specops uReset/Password Reset you may find that the displayed password policy rules from Active Directory do not appear accurate. All Specops password products respect both the default and fine-grained password policies as configured in Active Directory and are displayed by reading the relevant configuration attributes directly from...

Specops Password Reset (SPR) and Specops Password Policy (SPP) take full advantage of Active Directory. SPR creates a classStore Object called specops-spp-passwordreset. SPP creates a classstore Object called specops-spp-passwordhistory. Both of these objects can prevent migration tools, such as Active Directory Migration Tool (ADMT), from successfully migrating the user object. Note: The latest version of...

Password Reset stores each user’s enrollment data in a leaf object underneath the user’s account (specops-spp-pwdReset) By design, access to these leaf objects is restricted as follows: SYSTEM – Full Control Domain Admins – Full Control Password Reset Service Account – Full Control End user – Read access If you have changed Password Reset service...

SPECIAL ACCESS for classStoreCREATE CHILDDELETE CHILD Permissions inherited to subobjects: SPECIAL ACCESS for msDS-User-Account-Control-ComputedREAD PROPERTY SPECIAL ACCESS for userAccountControlREAD PROPERTY SPECIAL ACCESS for pwdLastSetWRITE PROPERTYREAD PROPERTY SPECIAL ACCESS for mobileWRITE PROPERTYREAD PROPERTY SPECIAL ACCESS for lockoutTimeWRITE PROPERTYREAD PROPERTY

When using Specops Password Reset with Delegated Helpdesk enabled, helpdesk users may encounter the following error when attempting to reset a user’s password in Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome browsers: Password reset failed: OperationsError (000004DC: LdapErr: DSID-0C090F6A, comment: In order to perform this operation a successful bind must be completed on the connection., data 0,...

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This article will review how Specops Password Reset affected/subscription licenses are consumed. Both affected (perpetual) and subscription licenses use the same model to count licenses — the count is based on the number of enabled Active Directory user accounts that have a Specops Password Reset GPO applied to them in Active Directory. Check Current License...

Specops Password Reset Server service uses a self-signed certificate to encrypt communications from the Password Reset Web (IIS) components. If this certificate is expired or inadvertently deleted, the Password Reset server may not be able to start. Identify the Certificate Currently In Use In order to check the certificate currently in use today, open the...