Re: administrator account locked out?

Depends if you are talking about network or interactive logon. It was not
possible to ever lock out the built in administrator account for interactive
logon for at least NT and Windows 2000. Passprop can cause the built in
administrator account to be locked out for interactive and network logon in
Windows 2003. For XP and Windows 2003 it makes more sense to disable the
built in administrator account than use passprop.

Steve


"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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djc wrote:
I just had a user lock out a local admin account?
this is new? I did not think local administrator accounts were subject to
GPOs such as the account lockout thresholds etc.. I didn't think the
local administrator account *could* be locked out by too many failed
login attempts? when did this change?

With the introduction of the Administrator account in WinNT, many years
ago.


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