Showing posts with label account lockouts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label account lockouts. Show all posts

Friday, 22 June 2012

account lockout in windows

You can use the account lockout tools to find out why accounts are locking out
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18465

On server 2008 you have to make sure to run eventcombMT as administrator.
This http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977519 page says the account lockout ID is 4740

You can configure account lockouts in group policy under
Computer configuration -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Account Policies/Account Lockout Policy