Microsoft provides an AD account lockout tool to check the lockout status. This tool can be downloaded here. After installing the tool, go to the folder you selected to extract the tool's files. The LockoutStatus.exe tool will help you find the source of an account lockout and resolve it.
Unlike the LockoutStatus tool provided by Microsoft, where you need to jump between multiple systems and consoles to pinpoint the source of lockout, ADAudit Plus allows you to analyze account lockouts in a single click. The who, when, where, and why of every account lockout is detailed in neat reports. These reports are collected in real time and can be exported to formats including CSV, PDF, XML, and HTML.
Get instant alerts when a privileged user is locked out or if the volume of lockouts is too high. These alerts can also be sent straight to the admin's or technician's email or mobile device via SMS from ADAudit Plus. With this AD lockout tool, you can find and resolve account lockouts in less than a few minutes.
AcctInfo.dll - Helps you isolate and troubleshoot account lockouts and change a user's password on a domain controller in that user's site. This tool adds new property pages to user objects in the Active Directory Users and Computers Microsoft Management Console (MMC).
Do not use this tool on servers that host network applications or services. Also, you should not use ALockout.dll on servers that are running Microsoft Exchange Server because it may prevent the Exchange store from starting.
LockoutStatus.exe - To help collect the relevant logs, determines all the domain controllers that are involved in a lockout of a user account. LockoutStatus.exe uses the NLParse.exe tool to parse Netlogon logs for specific Netlogon return status codes. This tool directs the output to a comma-separated value (.csv) file that you can sort later.
Both tools can be used to quickly get the lockout status of Active Directory user accounts. In addition, these tools are used to unlock accounts, reset passwords, and filter the logs for the lockout event ID.
An AD lockout tool is used to check if an Active Directory user account is locked out or not. These tools are faster and easier to use than the provided built-in Microsoft Tools. These tools also include additional features such as password reset, unlocking accounts, and troubleshooting.
AD account lockouts are one of the top support calls helpdesk staff deal with on a day to day basis. The built-in Microsoft tools do not provide a quick and easy way to check the status of user accounts. When a user calls and says they are locked out, you need the right tools to quickly check the user status and resolve their issues.
The AD Pro Toolkit is a collection of Active Directory Management Tools. The lockout status tool makes it very easy to find all locked users, unlock, reset passwords, and troubleshoot locked out users.
If your job consists of supporting user accounts then you need a tool that lets you quickly check the status of an account. As I mentioned in this article the built-in Microsoft tools are not the best option for this. The Microsoft account lockout tool and the AD Pro Toolkit Lockout Status are great alternatives to getting an account lockout status. They also provide additional features that simplify user account management.
I had the same requirement in my company where helpdesk was looking for a tool that can show them where the account was getting locked out so I have created a small tool that presents these DC lockout events in a nice GUI.
I'm currently using the LockoutStatus.exe tool to unlock DCs individually. Unfortunately this can take a massive amount of time because my company has more than 50 DCs! I'm looking for an alternative to right clicking each DC, selecting Unlock Account, waiting for the popup to confirm it was unlocked, then rinse & repeat.
I even scripted something to check the lockout status on every server in our domain and every single server will say unlocked - but lockoutstatus.exe will still say locked - and the user will still be locked.
I double checked our policy and it is set to 30 minutes and the account lockout time in both the script and the lockoutstatus.exe tool both say it's been over the 30 minute mark, but lockoutstatus.exe still says locked, while powershell and AD say unlocked.
The Microsoft lockoutStatus.exe command-line tool is used to find out why a user account has been locked out from Active Directory. If the lockoutStatus.exe tool does not match the lockout information in Active Directory, then the user account may have been locked out by another system or process. To resolve this issue, you should check the Event Logs for any suspicious entries or activities that may have caused the lockout. You can also check to see if the same user account is locked out on other systems in the domain.
You can use the graphical Lockoutstatus.exe tool from Microsoft Account Lockout and Management Tools pack to find the source of user account lockouts (you can download it here). This utility checks the account lockout status on all domain controllers.
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LockoutStatus.exe. Determines all the domain controllers that are involved in a lockout of a user in order to assist in gathering the logs. LockoutStatus.exe uses the NLParse.exe tool to parse Netlogon logs for specific Netlogon return status codes. It directs the output to a comma-separated value (.csv) file that you can sort further, if needed.
The LockoutStatus.exe displays information about a locked out account. It does this by gathering account lockout-specific information from Active Directory. The following list describes the different information that is displayed by the tool:
The ALockout.dll tool and the Appinit.reg script are included in the ALTools package. ALockout.dll is a logging tool that may help you determine the program or process that is sending the incorrect credentials in an account lockout scenario. The tool attaches itself to a variety of function calls that a process might use for authentication. The tool then saves information about the program or process that is making those calls into the Systemroot\Debug\Alockout.txt file. The events are time stamped so that you can match them to the events that are logged in either the Netlogon log files or the Security event log files.
Microsoft does not recommend that you use this tool on servers that host network programs or services. You should not enable ALockout.dll on Exchange servers because the ALockout.dll tool may prevent the Exchange store from starting.
You can use the ALockout.dll tool if you have already set up Netlogon logging, as well as Kerberos and logon auditing on the local computer. ALockout.dll does not interfere with any other logging or event generation.
You can also use the SecDump tool to display password expiration information in a Windows NT Server 4.0 domain. You can download this tool from the SystemTools Web site . Note that Web addresses can change, so you might be unable to connect to the Web site or sites mentioned here.
To use the Account Lockout Status button in the tool, verify that LockoutStatus.exe is in the Systemroot\System32 folder. If LockoutStatus.exe is not installed in this location, this button is unavailable.
To use the AcctInfo.dll tool, open the Active Directory Users and Computers MMC, right-click a user, click Properties, and then click Additional Account Info. An example of the information that is provided by AcctInfo.dll is shown in the following figure.
You can use the EventCombMT.exe tool to gather specific events from event logs from several different computers into one central location. You can configure EventCombMT.exe to search for events and computers. Some specific search categories are built into the tool, such as account lockouts. Note that the account lockouts category is preconfigured to include events 529, 644, 675, 676, and 681.
To use the EventCombMT.exe tool, open the folder you specified during setup for ALTools, double-click EventCombMT.exe, click the Searches menu, click Built in searches, and then click Account lockouts. When you do this, the events that will be pulled from the event logs are automatically displayed in the tool. These events are from all of the domain controllers in your environment. In addition to 529, 644, 675, and 681, type 12294 in the Event Ids box, and then click Search. The tool then searches the computers for these events, and then saves them to a .txt file that you specify.
Because Netlogon log files may become more than 10 MB in size, you may want to parse the files for the information that you want to view. You can use the NLParse.exe tool to parse Netlogon log files for specific Netlogon return status codes. The output from this tool is saved to a comma-separated values (.csv) file that you can open in Excel to sort further.
To use the NLParse.exe tool, open the folder you specified during setup for ALTools, double-click Nlparse.exe, click Open to open the Netlogon.log file that you want to parse, select the check boxes for the status codes that you want to search for, and then click Extract. After you do this, view the output from the NLParse.exe tool. Typically, you may want to look at both the 0xC000006A and 0xC0000234 code statuses to determine from where the lockouts are coming.
You can also use the FindStr.exe tool to parse Netlogon log files. FindStr.exe is a command-line tool that you can use to parse several Netlogon.log files at the same time. After you gather the Netlogon.log files from several domain controllers, extract information about a specific user account from the files (user1, error code 0xC000006A, or error code0xC0000234). You can use this tool to help you obtain output about a user, computer, or error code in the Netlogon.log files.
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