How do I unlock Azure AD accounts via PowerShell

Question

How do I unlock Azure AD accounts via PowerShell, when a users resets their local AD account, their AzureAD account gets locked, this is only happening to a few of our users

Answer 1

Hi Cedric Abraham,

Thank you for posting in Q&A forum.

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.

I hope the information above is helpful.

Best regards

Zunhui

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