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Admin account Lockout
Hi All - I have been asked to implement password chages ppoicy at a site we support. During this process I also setup account lockout policy after 5 invalid attempts The option Allow Administrator ...
- Select Command Prompt in the recovery options.
- Run the following command to enable DSRM mode on the next reboot:
- bcdedit /set safeboot dsrepair
- Restart the server, and it should boot into DSRM.
- Once you've resolved the issue, revert the change using:
bcdedit /deletevalue safeboot
Hi Kyazaferr -
I got all the way through to DSRM - went to local group policy gpedit.msc and the options to allow administrator Account lockout are greyed out and cannot be changed. If I try to open ADUC it says i need to be logged in with a domain admin account.
Any Idea's how to proceed ? is there anything in the registry I can do ?