Lockout Fixer

Managing user accounts and taking care of problems that may arise, especially for domain accounts, requires lots of experience in this area and a set of befitting tools. Administrators are usually the ones to handle these tasks and for them were created programs like Lockout Fixer.

Through a simple interface, all the features of the application can be accessed in order to solve locked account issues. In case a specific user account can no longer be used to connect to a certain domain, following a few steps the admin can lift the restriction using this utility.

When running this software it is important to do so with administrative privileges and while being connected to a domain. This is necessary for getting the list of domain controllers, which will be displayed in the first tab of the main window.

To check the lock out status or unlock an account it is required to provide the username for which the verification is being carried out. With Lockout Fixer it is also possible to investigate the event logs to see if there were any audit failures recorded on the servers when the account was locked.

This tool can show all the events that occurred at the time of the lockout or when the bad password was entered. The list of logs can be easily accessed and the content saved in the form of text (TXT) files.

Finding and viewing event logs is another ability that Lockout Fixer possesses and this can be accomplished by entering the name of the target system, then picking the date and time. On the whole, this application can prove of great help for those who have the responsibility and possibility to manage domain user accounts.