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Active Directory locks out all users

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by paulsenj

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Hi, Within the last few days I have had an issue with my win2k servers locking out every user account. For no apprent reason it just on a whim locks all of the accounts at once. There is no reference as to why in the logs or event viewer.

The only solution other than manualy unlocking every account is setting the lockout period really low like one minute. Any ideas?

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by frujim

You can enable account auditing on all your DCs to see if there is something external trying to do a brute force attack on your accounts.

I have never heard of AD itself doing something like that.

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