If you like me like a more simple password for your local administrator password on your servers in a test lab or production :) then you can change it using the local security policy. Problem is on Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, you don't have the MMC snap-ins to do it, so you need to use the command line as follows: Disable Local Password Expiry: > net accounts /maxpwage:unlimited Disable Password Complexity First export your security configuration using the following command: > secedit /export /cfg C:\securityconfig.cfg Open the exported file with notepad. Change the line: PasswordComplexity = 1 to: PasswordComplexity = 0 and save the file: > secedit /configure /db C:\Windows\security\new.sdb /cfg C:\securityconfig.cfg /areas SECURITYPOLICY Now you can set your local administrator password to something simple! ;) |
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