I was prompted to change my password using server 2008 for the first time. It's been up for a month. I hit control+alt+delete then "change password" as instructed. I entered the old password and while beginning to enter the new password starting with a capital letter, my finger pressed the "enter" key at the same time as the"shift" key. I immediately got a message saying "password changed". I never typed a character and never "confirmed" the password. It appears that the new password is indeed shift+enter. Upon trying to change the password again I need to type the old password. When I hit shift+enter it again says "password changed" and does not allow me to type or confirm a new password containing characters. HELP!

Hi, I cannot reproduce the issue on my Windows Server 2008 computer. When I press Shift + Enter, the Shift does not take effect (it works as I only press Enter). Does you keyboard have some special features?This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.

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So I'm hoping that this server is not yet on the domain, otherwise you need to look at your group policy for minimum password requirements Regardless of the spam or not, the concept is correct - however for a local account you can do so using Windows built in tools - this is written for Vista but should be similar for 2008: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Create-a-password-reset-disk If this is in relation to a domain account, you should be able to use Active Directory Users & Computers to reset the user account's password. Note that if the user has EFS encrypted files that this could get in the way of accessing those - so in that case you should locate all EFS encrypted files on the system, create an encrypted zip file and then add the files to that encrypted zip file, and remove the originals from the system, then reset the password and restore the files back to their previous locations after encrypting the parent folders (if the whole folder wasn't encrypted before then just remove the folder encryption setting afterwards). To locate all EFS encrypted files on the system, run this (note, this may take a couple minutes to run): cipher /n /u > c:\temp\EFSfiles.log