Lepide Account Lockout Examiner

Common Causes of Account Lockouts in Active Directory

Cached Credentials: Stored old passwords on devices cause repeated login failures.
Service Accounts: Services using outdated passwords trigger lockouts.
Scheduled Tasks: Tasks running with expired credentials lock accounts.
Mobile Devices: Devices with old passwords repeatedly try to authenticate.
Terminal Service Sessions: Disconnected sessions retry old credentials, causing lockouts.
User Errors: Multiple wrong password attempts lock the account.
Password Policy Issues: Strict or misconfigured policies cause frequent lockouts.
Misconfigured Policies: Incorrect settings trigger unintended lockouts.
Brute-Force Attacks: Attackers keep guessing passwords until accounts lock.

How Lepide Helps

Quickly detect account lockouts.

Quickly scan your Active Directory environment and detect account lockouts in real time to help simplify and speed up response.

Scan and review endpoints.

Scan and review endpoints for stored credentials that could indicate the cause of AD account lockouts (system services, mapped drives, logon sessions and more).

Remotely unlock accounts.

If you spot an Active Directory account that has been lockout out, and you want to reverse it, you can do so easily from within the tool.

Remotely reset passwords.

If you want to change the password for one of your Active Directory accounts, you can do so easily from within the tool.

No expiry date or commitment.

All of our award-winning freeware tools are provided completely free of charge forever.

The Lepide Active Directory account lockout tool.

Understanding account lockouts in AD is critical in ensuring individuals continuously have access to the resources they need as well as making sure that all business-critical processes are running with minimal operational downtime. Lepide’s Account Lockout Examiner tool ensures you are able to easily identify when an account has been locked out and examine which machine the account lockout has come from. With built in remote management tools to immediately unlock the account or reset the password it becomes easy to administer and maintain the status of user and service accounts in AD.

Reduce the time it takes to handle AD account lockout issues.

Our free Account Lockout Examiner tool notifies IT administrators about AD account lockout issues. It helps to simplify and speed up investigations into the root cause of lockouts and provides the ability to unlock user accounts from within the tool itself.

Detect account lockouts in real time.
Speed up investigation into the root cause.
Quickly unlock accounts through an intuitive web console.

Take the strain off your IT help desk.
Demonstrate compliance with your AD lockout policy.
Fulfil SLAs by identifying lockouts to service accounts.

“It does what it says on the tin! No more questions about who deleted or changed what when you weren’t looking. A must have as part of your freeware collection.”

Western Connecticut Health Network

Lepide is straightforward to use and effective right off the bat. Plus, the level of patience, attentiveness and technical knowhow is far beyond most support and sales teams I’ve seen before.

Drayke Jackson Security Engineer

Edinburgh Napier University

We chose Lepide as they were able to offer us threat detection and response, and a way of separating out reporting duties to a web console – all from one platform.

Kevin Gallagher Systems Administrator

City of
Danville

Lepide is a perfect fit for our IT Security and Compliance requirements. It helps us cut out a lot of wasted time and money and now we know we can be compliant with industry standards.

Agnel Dsilva IT Administrator