Change Lockout Duration with PowerShell

Question

_{Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:35 AM}

Hi All,

I know we can change the lockout duration to never from secpol/gpedit by setting it to 0.

But I want a simply way to do it with command prompt. Tried to run the following command but getting some error. 

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C:\net accounts /lockoutduration:0
System error 87 has occurred.

The parameter is incorrect.
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Any idea how to make it work? I just want to change the lockout duration to forever with command or powershell. As it will takes time for me if I need to do it from gpedit.msc, and change the value of Account Lockout Duration to 0.

The end result I want should be like below

G

All replies (5)

_{Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:50 AM | 1 vote}

To decode basic command errors use the following method:

PS C:\scripts> net helpmsg 87

The parameter is incorrect.

There is no such parameter as "lockoutduration"

To check parameters of messages use /?

This is a PowerShell forum and you are asking a system utility question.  Please post basic Windows questions in the Windows General forum.

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_{Wednesday, July 8, 2020 3:28 AM}

My question is whether we can change the account lockout duration to never or not with powershell?

I have asked the same question in the following link. And she suggested me to check in in here

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/0f1fbb3b-57a5-4583-aa8d-b0ac57fae589/change-lockout-duration-with-cmd?forum=winserversecurity

G

_{Wednesday, July 8, 2020 3:38 AM}

Account lockout duration is a global setting and not per account.  It can be set with Group Policy or local policy.  There is no PowerShell command to set this.

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_{Wednesday, July 8, 2020 5:57 AM}

I am able to set the account lockout duration with the following PowerShell command.

PS C:\ cmd /c net accounts /lockoutduration:45

But what I need to do is to set the lockout duration to "Never, while the lockout window/threshold set to 1.

G

_{Wednesday, July 8, 2020 6:18 AM | 1 vote}

net accounts /lockoutthreshold:Number

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