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How do I investigate my account lockout?
How to: Trace the source of a bad password and account lockout in AD
- Step 1: Download the Account Lockout Status tools from Microsoft.
- Step 2: Run ‘LockoutStatus.exe’
- Step 3: Choose ‘Select Target’ from the File menu.
- Step 4: Check the results.
- Step 5: Check the Security log on one of these DCs.
How do I enable account lockout auditing?
Step 1: Go to the Group Policy management console → Computer configuration → Policies → Windows Settings → Security Settings → Local Policies → Audit Policy. Step 2: Enable Audit account logon events and Audit logon events. Turn on auditing for both successful and failed events.
What is account lockout?
Account lockout is a feature of password security in Windows 2000 and later that disables a user account when a certain number of failed logons occur due to wrong passwords within a certain interval of time.
How to send an email lock out notification?
If your organization has configured an account lockout policy, the following Powershell script and scheduled task will send an email notification to an administrator (s) when an account becomes locked out. This is useful for both proactive notification when a user locks their account as well as for security notification purposes.
What does automatic lockout notifications do for ad accounts?
Increases information security in your environment by notifying administrators if accounts are locking out frequently (providing time to investigate potential foul play), as well as providing a log informing the administrator what machine the failed login requests are originating from.
How to set up an email lock out policy?
For information on setting up an account lockout policy, please see Configuring Account Lockout: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc737614 (v=ws.10).aspx Also, make sure you have account logon auditing turned on as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8IDynVTya0 System Requirements: Windows Server 2008 and Powershell 2.0
What to do if your Active Directory account gets locked out?
If you’re reading this blog you probably have some kind of an interest in how to notify your IT administrators via e-mail if an Active Directory account gets locked out in your environment. If you’re not interested and somehow wound up here, feel free to continue reading, you might just learn something!