Prevent Lockout

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Matt

Hi,
When a user connects either to OUTLOOK or to a file share they may be
prompted to enter a username and password (if they are one of the user's
that are not on our domain but are connecting from an outside source).
Yet, if they enter the password incorrectly it seems that
filesharing/outlook will hammer the domain controller until the account
gets locked out.
This seems like a rather large bug in the way windows operators... why
does the software hammer until the account is locked out?
 
Hi

What's your back password attempt threshold?

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At the moment 999 and it seems to work just fine *blah*.. I'd *like* to
have it around 3 or 5. We've tried 5 and that doesn't seem to work
well at all.. the accounts get locked out all the time.
 
Hi Matt

Referring to:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/technologies/security/bpactlck.mspx

The threshold should be set to a minimum of 10. Try this number and see how
you go. You may be hitting the limit because different authentication
mechanisms are being attempted on a failure.

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Mark Renoden [MSFT]
Windows Platform Support Team
Email: (e-mail address removed)

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me; I'll post a response back to the group.

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