How to unlock a user in Azure AD

Question

How to unlock a user in azure ad using the graph api. I did not seen any solution in Microsoft Learn. Is there any solution available to do this.

I really appreciate any help :)

Answer 1

Hi @Mahesh C M , thank you for reaching out. Unfortunately, there is no way to unlock a user account. You can check the following document https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-passwords-policy for details the how-to account lockout duration is calculated by default.
If the user is aa synced user, synced from on-prem AD, then the unlock policy configured on on-prem AD would take effect.

If smart lockout policies are configured, the user remains locked based on the lockout duration specified in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/connect/active-directory-aadconnect-pass-through-authentication-smart-lockout.

Hope this helps.

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