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Account keeps getting locked out -- Windows Server 2012

For some reason I can't seem to locate the exact service or application that keeps locking out a specific account.

Randomly one of our user accounts keeps getting locked out. I have been able to isolate it to being a login directly to one of our domain controllers and the SVCHOST service.

I have used the MS Account Lockout Tools to find the DC and the NetLogon logs to locate the PID of the service; but still can't fix this issue as of yet. I was able to do this with W2k3 & W2k8; not sure why W2k12 is not giving me the same results.

Any help would be appreciated.

hecgomrec

Make sure the user doesn't have a local account on the client with the same username but different password.

jmcg

Look through your services to see if somehow this user was associated with a service as the login account, with a stored password. Once the password is changed, the service attempting to log in with the stored password will log failures and lock the account out.

I don't know for sure that this is what is causing your experience, but it's not clear that you ruled out this possibility.

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Eric Forman

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jmcg

I always try to avoid deleting AD accounts that have been in use long enough to leave traces. Not always possible and perhaps overly cautious....

Eric Forman

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Found issue.

CODAdmin

Can you explain what your issue was? We are having the same issue with several users.