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chris-swapoo
Sep 15, 2021Copper Contributor
Azure AD B2C Custom Policies Password Protection Smart Lockout feature is not working as intended
My team is trying to implement an account lockout based on the number of login attempts. In Azure AD B2C > Authentication Methods > Password Protection we changed the lockout threshold to 3 and locko...
Sotsos15
Dec 09, 2022Copper Contributor
According to the documentation, when you test smart lockout, your sign-in requests might be handled by different datacenters due to the geo-distributed and load-balanced nature of the Azure AD authentication service. In that scenario, because each Azure AD datacenter tracks lockout independently, it might take more than your defined lockout threshold number of attempts to cause a lockout.