{"id":134,"date":"2009-03-12T13:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rick.sh\/index.php\/2009\/03\/12\/its-been-a-while-huh\/"},"modified":"2009-03-12T13:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T18:57:00","slug":"its-been-a-while-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rick.sh\/index.php\/2009\/03\/12\/its-been-a-while-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s been a while, huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry about not posting for a while, but I’ve been tackling projects left and right, trying to shorten the list on my boss’ desk.<\/span><\/p>\n

So major issue broke out this morning: password changes in Active Directory were failing with error:\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password length, password complexity and password history requirements
<\/span><\/div>\n
Even through command line, (net user \/domain username password) the error persisted. So I tried the usual, editing default domain policy, allowing\/blocking inheritance on Domain Controller’s OU in GPMC, editing domain controller’s policy, the usual stuff you find googling the error. (<\/span>http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/?id=269236<\/span><\/a>)\u00a0Nothing worked… until, I noticed the same error in the application event log, over and over:<\/span><\/div>\n
The description for Event ID ( 5 ) in Source ( WinPSAFilter ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may be able to use the \/AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see Help and Support for details. The following information is part of the event: .<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
And I didn’t notice that it started at about the same time users began reporting issues changing their passwords. Well, the WinPSAFilter belongs to our SSO product, Computer Associates, CA SSO.<\/span><\/div>\n
Long story short, this software sucks. I uninstalled the Password Sync Agent from all of our DCs, and that was it. Password changes were now allowed.<\/span><\/div>\n
Does anyone out there use this product? Have you had problems like this with it?<\/span><\/div>\n
We were going to use it in a test environment, but have now decided that it just isn’t going to work out.<\/span><\/div>\n
I have another Cisco tip to post, but I’ll post after work.<\/span><\/div>\n
Rick Estrada<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry about not posting for a while, but I’ve been tackling projects left and right, trying to shorten the list on my boss’ desk. So major issue broke out this morning: password changes in Active Directory were failing with error:\u00a0 The password does not meet the password policy requirements. Check the minimum password length, password … <\/p>\n

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