Friday, December 20, 2013

The operating system reported error 615: The password provided is too short to meet the policy of your user account. Please choose a longer password.

Recently i've upgraded a customer's site from SCCM 2012 SP1 to SCCM 2012 R2 and everything seemed to go well, even console was upgraded without any issues... until we've started deploying OS to the clients...

there are a couple of know issues described here and here so read carefully before upgrading or even installing a brand new SCCM R2 site.

the first issue - slow .wim file download - was predictable and quiet known. It is already fixed in KB2905002 and as soon as it was installed, the download speed went back to normal. According to Microsoft you should apply this cu during TS as well. Applying a cumulative update during TS is described here.

the second issue however  is far less known and there is neither hotfix nor CU from Microsoft available for it right now.

installation of an application or applications failes during Task Sequence and you ger the following error message in the log:
"The operating system reported error 615: The password provided is too short to meet the policy of your user account. Please choose a longer password."

Fortunately the guys from scug.be have already ran into this problem and were so kind to  document the solution on their blog. And i really like those guy's, because they've even shared the script to fix it site wide.

Please note: they've had this issue after upgrading from SCCM 2012 RTM to SCCM 2012 SP1. however this solution also works after upgrade to SCCM R2 screwed up your applications too.

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