From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
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Configure account lockout policy settings
From the course: Windows Server 2012 R2: Configure and Manage Active Directory
Configure account lockout policy settings
- In an Active Directory environment, users are typically expected to authenticate using a user name and a password. Sometimes other people will attempt to guess those passwords. Well, we have an account lockout policy which can help prevent people from getting away with guessing a users password. Now, in order to manage the account lockout policy, I need to go into one of our domain controllers. It can really be any domain controller, so I'm going to go into DC 1. Here in DC 1, in the Server Manager, I'm going to go to the Tools menu, and I'm going to select Group Policy Management. The account lockout policy is managed through group policy. And if you're familiar with group policy objects, you know that you can create many of them, and they can be linked to all sorts of different places within your environment. Similar to the password policy, the account lockout policy must be implemented at the domain level. So…
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