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<p>To change the password policy we&#8217;ll have first to open Group policy management which is located in &#8220;Administrative Tools&#8221; on your DC</p>
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<p>Right click on &#8220;Default Domain Policy&#8221; in order to change the password policy for all users within a domain.</p>



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<p>This will open the Group Policy Management editor as you can see below where you will have to navigate to &#8220;Computer configuration ->; Security Settings ->; Password Policy&#8221; and there you can disable the password complexity, adjust it or change any other settings.</p>
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<p>Next when the Group policy opens up the configuration I will go to &#8220;Account Policies&#8221; and disable the &#8220;Password must meet complexity requirements&#8221; since this is what I simply want do in my case.</p>



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<p>After changing the policy you will need to force updating the policy on all the domain joined clients by using the command line <strong>GPupdate /force</strong></p>
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<p>When this is finished, all clients must be restarted in order for the group policy change to take effect.</p>

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