Local users have a password complexity requirement on Windows Server 2012. I can turn this off [imperatively] through regular PowerShell. I use secedit with an export, then I make a text modification, then I do an import. I have looked, but I cannot find the specific Windows Registry keys that correspond to this setting. I found the Maximum Age setting for the password as well as other password keys (e.g., history etc.). What is the Windows Server 2012 Registry Key that corresponds with the sheer complexity? I read that the key is not something that should be manually modified. But at any rate, I do not know which key is the appropriate one.
Better yet, is there a way to use DSC (with PowerShell 4.0) to turn off the password complexity requirement from all the local users or the new users that will be created? I already know how to use regular PowerShell to accomplish this. I’d love to know how to do this declaratively [with DSC].
