RE: Account Lockout Policy

The question referred to LOCAL accounts on the workstation. Putting a policy
on an OU affects local accounts. It will work. I have tested it. :-)

Laura 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: RAMI KHANFER [mailto:RAMI.KHANFER@mobilecom.jo] 
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:49 PM
> To: Derick Anderson; Shabbar Arsiwala; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: Account Lockout Policy
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> You can not configure account policy on OU; the only place 
> where you can configure account policy is at the domain level.
>
> Best Regards
> Rami Khanfer
>  
> MobileCom - IT Direction/ Infrastructure Department 
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> Email             Rami.Khanfer@mobilecom.jo
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derick Anderson [mailto:danderson@vikus.com]
> Sent: Thursday/October/2005 05:59 PM
> To: Shabbar Arsiwala; focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> Subject: RE: Account Lockout Policy
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shabbar Arsiwala [mailto:sarsiwala@obleness.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:07 AM
> > To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com
> > Subject: Account Lockout Policy
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> > We have an account lockout policy setup for users  on our 
> domain Win 
> > 2K3 / Active Directory environment. 4 invalid attempts the account 
> > locks out / 30 mins the account is released. We would like 
> to change 
> > this policy for one the machines on our domain. This machine uses a 
> > local administrator account to log in.
> >
> > Is this possible ???
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Shabbar
>
> It is possible to change the *local* machine account lockout 
> policy for a specific machine, but not the *domain* lockout 
> policy. To do this you need to put your *domain* password 
> policy in the Domain Controllers OU, create a separate OU for 
> this one machine, make a new policy with the desired lockout 
> settings, and link it to the single machine's OU. This will 
> only work for *local* accounts (such as MACHINE\Administrator), not
> *domain* accounts (DOMAIN\Administrator).
>
> Derick Anderson
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