With Windows Server 2008 RC0 and the
Beta builds of Windows Server 2008, you were
automatically logged on after the successful completion
of Windows Server 2008 installation, and then
creating the administrator user account password was the
first option inside the Initial Configuration Tasks.
Whereas
With Windows Server 2008 RC1 and the RTM'd version, you
are no longer
automatically logged on to your server after the
completion of Windows Server 2008 installation.
And the option to Set a password for the Administrator
account has been removed from the initial Configuration
Tasks
This is because the first page you will receive after your successful
installation of Windows Server 2008 is the
Press CTRL + ALT + DELETE to log on page !!
And it made many Windows Server 2008 administrators
confused about how to log on to the server. So what shall you do then , how can you log on to your
server ??!!

Click on the Other User icon and
you will be asked to enter a username and password ! What
username and which password, we didn’t configure any
during the installation process ! With previous Windows
operating systems, during the installation, we were used
to be asked for a password for the Administrator, but
with Windows Server 2008, are are neither asked to
create a user nor to create a password for the
Administrator account.

The answer is to enter
the administrator user without any password.

After you type administrator as a
username click enter, now will be asked to create a password
before you can logon, click on OK,


A default Windows Server 2008
installation has the Password must meet
complexity requirements option enabled in the
local policy. This will force the user to come up with a
complex password. The new
password must meet the following minimum requirements:
- The password is at least six characters long.
- The password contains characters from three of
the following four categories:
- English uppercase characters (from A through
Z)
- English lowercase characters (from a through
z)
- Base 10 digits (from 0 through 9)
- Non-alphanumeric characters (for example: !,
$, #, or %)
- The password does not contain three or more
characters from the user’s account name. If the
account name is less than three characters long,
this check is not performed because the rate at
which passwords would be rejected would be too high.
After you type the password and
confirm it, you will receive a page confirming that the
password has been changed, click on OK.



It will take few seconds to log on as the administrator
profile will be created.
Summary
The first time you try to log on to Windows
Server 2008 will makes you wonder which username or what
password should I use to successfully log on.
A default Windows Server 2008
installation has the Password must meet
complexity requirements option enabled in the local
policy. That's why
the new
password must meet a minimum requirements before it can
be accepted and created.
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