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Account Logout or User Login Attempts - 8/21/2007 6:14:01 PM

yihwen

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Hi

I wondering if anyone have any scripts out there to generate a list of account lockout users and send an email to the administrator every 10 mins should there be anyone with account locked out?

Is there a way to use VBS to email an alert when a failure attempt to login for any user account? This will be useful so that I will know who is trying to be funny.

Thanks
Yih Wen

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RE: Account Logout or User Login Attempts - 8/21/2007 9:26:56 PM

SAPIENScripter

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You should be able to use something like this.

You need to modify it to list every user in the domain. There are also plenty of examples showing you how to use CDO to send an email.

But from a practical perspective you have some challenges. First, you would need a script that is constantly running, checking Active Direcory every 10-15 minutes. And if a user is locked out, won't they be calling for help anyway? Or do you have a joker or two who is purposely attempting bad logons with other peoples credentials to lock them out? In which case you have a real management and end-user policy issue. You won't be able to tell who is abusing the system. Even if you figure out which computer the logon attempts are taking place you still can't know who, unless you have cameras or something.

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RE: Account Logout or User Login Attempts - 8/22/2007 6:32:45 PM

yihwen

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Hi

Thanks for the reply, I can set a scheduled task to run for every 10 mins. Our AD is the main authentication to many services and sometimes user reported issue that they cannot login to that services. In order to streamline our troubleshooting, we will know that should the user report they cannot access certain services, we know that his account is lockout due to the 10 min interval check. The script that you sent seem to check only a single user. I would hope to be able to check thru the entire domain and send email when detected that the account is lockout.

Thanks
Yih Wen

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RE: Account Logout or User Login Attempts - 8/22/2007 11:34:12 PM

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You need to modify the code to get every user. I'd take the code I pasted earlier and turn it into a function. Have the function return True or False.

set wshNetwork=CreateObject("wscript.network")
set objDomain=GetObject("WinNT://" & wshNetwork.UserDomain)
objDomain.Filter=array("user")
For each member in objDomain
if IsAccountLocked(member.name) then
wscript.echo member.name & " is locked"
end if
next

Function IsAccountLocked(strUserName)

'use my other code here. You'll need to modify it to take a username as a parameter.

end function

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