Exchange 2010 OWA: The password supplied does not meet the minimum security requirements. Please contact technical support
Exchange 2010 OWA users starts getting an error while trying to change password through OWA
“The password supplied does not meet the minimum security requirements. Please contact technical support for your organization if you need help”
Well, the fix is pretty simple:
Edit the AD Group policy “Minimum password age” from the number specified to 0.
Do a gpupdate /force on the DC or wait for replication.
Ratish
November 8th, 2010 at 5:53 pm
Behrng from Istanbul / Turkey. I just want say THANK YOU for this article. It helped me resolve the mentioned issue 🙂
March 30th, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Its a Helpful one.
April 26th, 2011 at 1:17 am
Dear Team
Still i am unable to change password through OWA .. I have change Password policy as below. Maximum Password Age: 100, Minimum Password Age:0, Password complicity= disable..
Pls provide solution as i am getting message
“The password supplied does not meet the minimum security requirements”
September 27th, 2011 at 11:47 am
First, you need to change the group policy on your active directory, follow these steps http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc875814.aspx
You need to change the account policy, password policy, password must meet complexity requirements, change this to disabled.
November 3rd, 2011 at 4:38 am
Thnx
February 19th, 2012 at 11:28 am
You are a life saver
July 31st, 2012 at 1:21 am
Thanks a million
August 7th, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Surely there must be another solution. It’s not acceptable to me that the fix for this is to change my domain password policy to disable complexity and set the Minimum password age to 0, just to allow password resets via OWA.
August 8th, 2012 at 9:20 am
I wish I had better news… You could try calling Microsoft support to see if they have a better solution.
Please post it here once you have it to help the community!!!
August 28th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Working on a similar issue. Try verifying that changing password through OWA is enabled via your registry. Feature is included in SP 3 for 2007 and SP 1 for 2010:
To enable the password reset feature;
1. Log on to the Exchange server(s) running the CAS role by using an account that has local administrator rights.
2. Start Registry Editor, and then locate the following registry subkey:
HLKM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchange OWA
3. Create the following DWORD value if it does not already exist:
Value name: ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled
Value type: REG_DWORD
Value data: 1
4. Exit Registry Editor.
Here is the 2007 SP3 page, but the same intructions apply to 2010 SP1.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l…EXCHG.80).aspx
September 18th, 2012 at 11:21 pm
thanks for sharing it really works
we have problam from whole day about figuring out what is the reason for denial of changing password and the idea of yours is working