domain account lockout for mulltiple users

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Hi all,
I am working in a windows 2003 domain , one day morning all users try
to login domain around 100 users get same message as "domain account
lockout" .I check with user tab , account was lockout . Why this
happen??
How we can rectify these issues further??
How I can open account lockout for multiple users at a time??
How I can search in domain how many users account had lockout??
Regards
Bipi

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