90% of attacks start with a phish. It’s critical that IT admins and MSSPs have the right security in place to protect their end users from these phishing attacks. Check out our latest feature brief for tips and tricks to keep your employees off a hackers line!
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q281140&sd=tech (still they can reset the password just as before, if they are admins)
If you tried to guess passwords using terminal services, you'd also Never Be Locked out, even if the failed attempts were exceeded- TS thinks of all accounts as Local, even if they are domain accounts. you will be disconnected from TS once you've guessed wrong a few times, but you can keep at it forever! But the user your trying to guess' passwrod would of had to log-on to that server first. Despite the patch for 2000, this still works on XPpro...
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;274372
-rich