Group Policy Preferences Password Behaviour Change – MS14-025
A number of month ago I did a blog post explaining why the use of passwords (a.k.a. cPasswords) in Group Policy Preferences was such a bad idea ( see Why Passwords in Group Policy Preference are VERY...
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As per my previous blog post Microsoft has release MS14-025 that blocks the ability to configure passwords using Group Policy Preferences. However as part of the guidance they have also published a...
View ArticleHow to remove cPassword values from Active Directory
With the recent MS14-025 security patch Microsoft has removed the ability to configure passwords in Group Policy Preferences via the User Interface. However this update does not remove the password...
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