Impact of changing the Password complexity level

Hi @Gaetano,

I did a quick test in my lab this morning to confirm for you. In summary, increasing the complexity only impacts new password changes or new account creations not existing users passwords (which is a good thing in my opinion!).

For clarification up front, password complexity level 2 is default even if the setting isn’t in place.

• I created a new user with a password meeting complexity for level 2 (at least eight characters, one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, one number, and one special character.)
• Gave the user some basic permissions and confirmed logon is fine
• Now I set the complexity to 3 and cycled the Commserve services as required
• I confirmed my test account logon is still successful with no change
• However If I want to change the password now I can’t use something similar to before I have to meet the new complexity requirement 
• Complexity level 3 (minimum of twelve characters. It must be a combination of at least two uppercase letters, two lowercase letters, two numbers, and two special characters.)
• Same was true for attempting to create a new account now

Let me know if you have any additional questions regarding this!

Kind Regards,
Sean