Account lockout duration

Our Default Domain Policy GPO (linked at the domain level), has the following settings configured:
Account lockout duration: 60 minutes
Account lockout threshold: 3 invalid login attempts
Reset account lockout coutner after: 30 minutes
Using both RSOP in Group Policy Management and GPRESULT on the local machine, I can see that the above policy is applied.
However, when a user account is locked out, it is not automatically unlocked after 60 minutes.
Thoughts?

Hi,
                                      Heres a short list of things
you should check if youre encountering trouble with your Password Policy settings (they dont get applied).
                                       # 1 Is your Password Policy
linked at the domain level?
                                      Have you linked it to the domain?
If not, you should. The Password Policy is only effective if its linked to the domain level. On OU level, the settings you specify in the policy will target the local machines user accounts and their passwords. Not the AD accounts people log on with.
The password settings dont need to be made in the Default Domain Policy. It can be any policy that you create. See # 2.
# 2 Are there multiple policies at the domain level that implement Password Policies?
                                      This is pretty similar to the Highlander.
There can only be one. One Password Policy. So - when there are multiple policies that implement password settings, the one applied last gets active. What that means is that you need to make sure that your password policy is linked at the top of
the list of policies for the domain level. You can see that in GPMC. The policies linked to the domain have a specific order and they get applied from the bottom up. Logic says that the policy at the first position is applied last - so that should be the policy
your password settings are in.
# 3 Make sure policy inheritance isnt blocked at the Domain Controllers OU
                                      When inheritance is blocked at the
Domain Controllers OU, the password policy cannot be applied and the old policy will stick at the DCs. That would result in the fact that they wont check for the new complexity.
Regards, Koustov Choudhury

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