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Account lockouts with Active Directory

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by dug_hughes

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I?m experiencing account lockouts with Active Directory. It has been suggested that it is caused after using remote admin terminal services on Windows 2000 server. When the password is reset the account gets locked shortly afterwards. Why should this occur even when the account is logged out from all machines? Or is it some other problem?

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by cg it

if the lockout policy is set to 0 logon tries, the account is automatically locked until the admin unlocks which once unlocked will automatically lock again. seems like a bug but then 0 logon tries for lockout means no tries.

by dug_hughes

Thank you for this answer but the accounts work for most of the time. This only occurs after the password is changed on it monthly schedule. Also it doen't seem to happen to all accounts.

by cg it

well thats suggestion was one possibility. Ive had a like/similar "problem" though I dont consider it a problem. User changes password and the account locks out until I go in to their AD account and uncheck the account locked out box. I considered the "problem" an annoyance for the most part. I was unable to find anything on Microsoft's Help & Support regarding this issue.

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