User S Domain Account Continually Locked Out
When an account is locked out a 4740 event is logged in the security log on the pdc of your domain.
User s domain account continually locked out. To search for locked out accounts you can run the search adaccount command using the lockedout parameter. Normally we have a report when an account gets locked out. In this case the computer name is lon dc01. You will see a list of events of locking domain user accounts on this dc with an event message a user account was locked out find the last entry in the log containing the name of the desired user in the account name value.
Initially i thought it was an issue with rdp as the user was using a 3rd party rdp software that saves passwords insecurely. Sometimes it happens within 5 minutes sometimes in 5 hours it s quite random. The pdc emulator is a central place that can be queried for all account lockout events. I have one user in our whole domain that keeps getting his account locked out.
It happened in our domain quite often mostly for situation 2 mentioned above. Hi guys we have a user who is getting locked out of the domain every day our domain is set up in a way to allow 3 failed password attempts before locking out the users account this user has been consistently getting one to two lockouts every day for around 3 weeks now and it s baffled everyone in the. Auditing is now turned on and event 4740 will be logged in the security events logs when an account is locked out. If you have a single domain controller shame on you then you can skip to the next step hopefully you have at least two dcs.
The name of the computer from which the lock was made is specified in the caller computer name value. One annoying thing was that the reason for the locked account and from which host it came from was not always present in the logs. This will return all users currently locked out granted you have the rights to see that. Find the domain controller with the pdc emulator role.
User on domain is locked out every day. This command is great but what if you have an account that is continually getting locked out and you need to figure out.