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Specops Password Policy

Required Steps After Migration from FRS to DFSR Replication for SYSVOL

After the migration of SYSVOL replication from FRS to DFSR, there will be path changes in SYSVOL that will prevent the Sentinel component of Password Policy from functioning properly.  As Sentinel is responsible for enforcing Specops password settings, password changes would then be processed only by the native Microsoft password settings in Default Domain Policy...

How do I upgrade Password Policy?

How do I upgrade password policy steps are as below: 1.Navigate to https://env-specopssoftcom-kelseytest.kinsta.cloud/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...

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...

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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