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SCT Disabled User Accounts
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try
2006-03-17 00:02:27 UTC
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Suddenely for some reason all the accounts other than Administrator were
disabled and the description said "SCT Disabled". Once i enabled the accounts
they were displayed on the Logon welcome screen and was able to logon. Does
anyone know why such a thing would have occured. It obviously was disabled by
SCT.
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try
ZOverLord
2006-03-17 00:25:27 UTC
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In the cases I have been involved in this is caused by someone trying to
logon during Auto-Updates. So you may need to decide if you can control who
will attempt to logon during that time, if you have no control of that, you
may need to use manual updates, otherwise, each time this happens, you may
need to re-enable all accounts.
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Post by try
Suddenely for some reason all the accounts other than Administrator were
disabled and the description said "SCT Disabled". Once i enabled the accounts
they were displayed on the Logon welcome screen and was able to logon. Does
anyone know why such a thing would have occured. It obviously was disabled by
SCT.
--
try
try
2006-03-20 16:07:28 UTC
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The Auto Updates occur at 3:00 am in the morning. I am pretty sure no one is
trying to logon at 3:00 am.
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try
Post by ZOverLord
In the cases I have been involved in this is caused by someone trying to
logon during Auto-Updates. So you may need to decide if you can control who
will attempt to logon during that time, if you have no control of that, you
may need to use manual updates, otherwise, each time this happens, you may
need to re-enable all accounts.
--
Where Black Grey and White Hats Unite: http://testing.OnlyTheRightAnswers.com
Post by try
Suddenely for some reason all the accounts other than Administrator were
disabled and the description said "SCT Disabled". Once i enabled the accounts
they were displayed on the Logon welcome screen and was able to logon. Does
anyone know why such a thing would have occured. It obviously was disabled by
SCT.
--
try
ZOverLord
2006-03-20 16:37:29 UTC
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If you have moved your event logs, there should be some entries as to what is
going on, what do they say? and what time do they say what they do?
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Post by try
The Auto Updates occur at 3:00 am in the morning. I am pretty sure no one is
trying to logon at 3:00 am.
--
try
Post by ZOverLord
In the cases I have been involved in this is caused by someone trying to
logon during Auto-Updates. So you may need to decide if you can control who
will attempt to logon during that time, if you have no control of that, you
may need to use manual updates, otherwise, each time this happens, you may
need to re-enable all accounts.
--
Where Black Grey and White Hats Unite: http://testing.OnlyTheRightAnswers.com
Post by try
Suddenely for some reason all the accounts other than Administrator were
disabled and the description said "SCT Disabled". Once i enabled the accounts
they were displayed on the Logon welcome screen and was able to logon. Does
anyone know why such a thing would have occured. It obviously was disabled by
SCT.
--
try
David Guimbellot (MSFT)
2006-03-20 21:30:28 UTC
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The scheduled tasks for WDP disable the users accounts, specifically the one
called 'at2'

if at2 or the at3 script has an error then the accounts will not be
re-enabled.

i suggest that you try running these scripts interactively to insure that
they still run properly.
Post by ZOverLord
If you have moved your event logs, there should be some entries as to what is
going on, what do they say? and what time do they say what they do?
--
Where Black Grey and White Hats Unite: http://testing.OnlyTheRightAnswers.com
Post by try
The Auto Updates occur at 3:00 am in the morning. I am pretty sure no one is
trying to logon at 3:00 am.
--
try
Post by ZOverLord
In the cases I have been involved in this is caused by someone trying to
logon during Auto-Updates. So you may need to decide if you can control who
will attempt to logon during that time, if you have no control of that, you
may need to use manual updates, otherwise, each time this happens, you may
need to re-enable all accounts.
--
Where Black Grey and White Hats Unite: http://testing.OnlyTheRightAnswers.com
Post by try
Suddenely for some reason all the accounts other than Administrator were
disabled and the description said "SCT Disabled". Once i enabled the accounts
they were displayed on the Logon welcome screen and was able to logon. Does
anyone know why such a thing would have occured. It obviously was disabled by
SCT.
--
try
try
2006-03-21 18:43:24 UTC
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At2 was scheduled to run at 3 Pm instead of 3 am, changed that and havent
seen that issue again. Thank you ZOverlord and David for your replies.
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try
Post by David Guimbellot (MSFT)
The scheduled tasks for WDP disable the users accounts, specifically the one
called 'at2'
if at2 or the at3 script has an error then the accounts will not be
re-enabled.
i suggest that you try running these scripts interactively to insure that
they still run properly.
Post by ZOverLord
If you have moved your event logs, there should be some entries as to what is
going on, what do they say? and what time do they say what they do?
--
Where Black Grey and White Hats Unite: http://testing.OnlyTheRightAnswers.com
Post by try
The Auto Updates occur at 3:00 am in the morning. I am pretty sure no one is
trying to logon at 3:00 am.
--
try
Post by ZOverLord
In the cases I have been involved in this is caused by someone trying to
logon during Auto-Updates. So you may need to decide if you can control who
will attempt to logon during that time, if you have no control of that, you
may need to use manual updates, otherwise, each time this happens, you may
need to re-enable all accounts.
--
Where Black Grey and White Hats Unite: http://testing.OnlyTheRightAnswers.com
Post by try
Suddenely for some reason all the accounts other than Administrator were
disabled and the description said "SCT Disabled". Once i enabled the accounts
they were displayed on the Logon welcome screen and was able to logon. Does
anyone know why such a thing would have occured. It obviously was disabled by
SCT.
--
try
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