Windows 8.1 Password Complexity issue

Hi All,
We are running an AD Domain based on Server 2008 R2 and all of our Clients are Windows 8.1 with all of the latest security patches installed (last WSUS updates at 10-09-14)
I am having an issues getting the Password must meet complexity requirements
setting to work.
I have applied it both at the Default Domain Policy Level and created another GPO that specifically Enables this option but it still won't work, the strange thing is that all the other password policy settings are working just fine.
When running rsop.msc on my machine I can verify that the GPO settings have applied and the password complexity requirement is set to Enabled.
As I mentioned before, the Password length requirement is working, I tried changing my password to cat and got the message that it did not meet requirements but i could change it to catcat which obviously doesn't meet password complexity requirements but
does meet the 6 character length minimum that we have set.
The even stranger thing is that this was working about 2 weeks ago when we first enabled it, I tested it and all was working as it should so does anyone know if any of this months Windows or Server updates that come down in WSUS have broken or changed the
way this setting worked?
*** I tried to post some pictures to show what i have set but i get the message Body text cannot contain images or links until we are able to verify your account so apologies for the lack of images showing what i have done.

Am 07.10.2014 um 04:10 schrieb "Ali McMillan":
> When running rsop.msc on my machine I can verify that the GPO settings
> have applied and the password complexity requirement is set to Enabled.
To check PW policies in a domain, run rsop on the PDC emulator. That's
the only domain controller in the domain that will apply password
policies to doimain accounts.
Martin
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