Re: Account Lockout

From: kmkrause2 (kmkrause2_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/30/04


Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:55:02 -0800

I have the auditing turned on. I was hoping there was a utility that could
prevent me from having to go to the 40+ servers and 70+ workstations
individually to look for the failed login attempts.

"Ryan Hanisco" wrote:

> If you think it is an issue where there is a repeated failed logon, you can
> see this if you turn on auditing of domain logons. In general, you should
> have this on for both Failure and Success as it will alert you to a number
> of potential problems/ threats.
>
> Do this via a GPO and watch for failed logon attempts. Other than that, you
> can go into more detailed auditing looking for changes to accounts, but this
> will probably be unnecessary if you think this is just due to failed
> attempts.
>
> --
> Ryan Hanisco
> MCSE, MCDBA
> Flagship Integration Services
>
> "kmkrause2" <kmkrause2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:141C30B6-8375-4D7E-B0A9-60A23A961839@microsoft.com...
> > Is there a utility that can be used to determine where a particular
> account
> > is getting locked out from. I have a user's account that is getting locked
> > out periodically. Most likely it's due to some service attempting to log
> in
> > under that users' account. The account has been getting locked out from
> time
> > to time since his last password change.
> >
> > I don't want to have to search the security event logs from all the
> > computers and servers on our network. Is there an easier way?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Ken
>
>
>



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