Re: Update Lockout user attribute Programmatically

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You can't programmatically lock a user in any other way than by generating
the required failed number of authentications that your policy specifies.
lockoutTime can only be set to 0 by users and
msds-user-account-control-computed is a read-only, computed attribute.

You can programmatically disable users by changing userAccountControl.

Joe K.

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"Ryan Sanders" <RyanLSanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Because that is what the boss said, you know how that goes. Also there
are nearly 500 use case setup one of these calls for the program to lock
the account, many other call for disable account. I am not the BA, this
is what they told me needs to occur.

I believe that the site returns a different message to the end user and
thus different corrective action based on status locked or disabled.

So can this be done? Flip a flag or change an attribute value to lock the
accounts.

Thanks.


Jorge de Almeida Pinto [MVP - DS] wrote:
why do you want to lock and not disable? what is the purpose?



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