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Change Password or Pin Complexity after removing from Intune

Published on February 13, 2023 Last reviewed on February 13, 2023

After my account and computer was removed from Intune policies and the account was removed from Windows Settings > Accounts > Access work or school, I wanted to revert to a simple 4-digit password but could not revert to a simple pin code.

You'd think that would be enough, right? It's not. It's not enough to remove the computer from Intune and remove the work account from the computer. I tried all the usual methods of changing pin complexity. I tried setting the password requirements using GPO. Nothing I tried worked.

So I ignored it… until a dialog came up telling me the pin expired. I didn't want to make a new pin every 6 months and put more effort into getting rid of the policy that set the pin complexity.
pin complexity

I finally found the solution: edit a registry key.

  1. Open Registry Editor – you can do this by typing regedit and the start menu and opening it.
  2. Browse to this key: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\current\device\DeviceLock
    Change password or pin complexity
  3. Modify the value MinDevicePasswordLength – this sets the password length and was set to 8; I changed to 4
  4. Modify the value MinDevicePasswordComplexCharacters – this controls how many different character groups you need (upper case, lower case, number, special) and was on 4, I changed it to 1
  5. Reboot.

Problem solved. I could now create a 4-digit pin code.

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