{"id":3281,"date":"2021-11-17T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2025-05-07T12:39:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T12:39:17","slug":"active-directory-users-locked-or-disabled-what-is-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/active-directory-users-locked-or-disabled-what-is-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Directory: Users locked or disabled \u2013 What is the Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained padding-inline-C2G2 padding-inline-M-C0G1 padding-top-pe-full\"><figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AD_Differences.jpg.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AD_Differences.jpg.webp 750w, https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AD_Differences.jpg-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex padding-top-1em\"><div class=\"wp-block-avatar\"><img alt='Christoph Schulze Avatar' src='https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cropped-Christoph-Schulze-Circle-Portrait-40x40.png' srcset='https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cropped-Christoph-Schulze-Circle-Portrait-80x80.png 2x' class='avatar avatar-40 photo wp-block-avatar__image' height='40' width='40' \/><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author padding-left-1em\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-author__content\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-author__name\">Christoph Schulze<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date padding-left-1em\"><time datetime=\"2021-11-17T12:10:00+00:00\">11\/17\/2021<\/time><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title padding-bottom-0_25em padding-top-0_25em\">Active Directory: Users locked or disabled \u2013 What is the Difference?<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-left is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-f56a869c wp-block-group-is-layout-flex align-items-S-flex-start flex-flow-S-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-arrow-left is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-basics-4-color has-text-color has-link-color has-border-color has-basics-4-border-color wp-element-button\" href=\"\/en\/knowledge\/\" style=\"border-width:2px\">All articles<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"taxonomy-category wp-block-button wp-block-button__link has-primary-3-background-color has-background wp-element-button wp-block-post-terms margin-left-C0G1 margin-left-S-C0G0 margin-top-S-C0G1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/wissen\/#category-active-directory-en\/\" rel=\"tag\">Active Directory<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained padding-block-pe-full padding-inline-C2G2 padding-inline-M-C0G1\">\n<p>There are different states for Active Directory user objects. For example, one distinguishes between activated, locked or deactivated accounts. Often the question arises, what is actually the difference between a&nbsp;<strong>locked<\/strong>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<strong>deactivated<\/strong>&nbsp;AD user account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this article, we will go into the individual states of user accounts in Active Directory and also within the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/tenfold\/\">tenfold&nbsp;<\/a>IAM solution.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"table-of-contents\"><h3>Content<\/h3><ul><li class=\"h2\"><a href=\"#the-possible-statuses-of-active-directory-users\">The possible Statuses of Active Directory Users<\/a><\/li><li class=\"h3\"><a href=\"#disabled\">Disabled<\/a><\/li><li class=\"h3\"><a href=\"#locked\">Locked<\/a><\/li><li class=\"h3\"><a href=\"#expired\">Expired<\/a><\/li><li class=\"h2\"><a href=\"#get-in-touch-with-us\">Get in touch with us<\/a><\/li><li class=\"h2\"><a href=\"#difference-between-tenfold-and-active-directory\">Difference between tenfold and Active Directory<\/a><\/li><li class=\"h2\"><a href=\"#summary\">Summary<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The possible Statuses of Active Directory Users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In Active Directory, a user account can have one of three other states in addition to the default active state:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-h3\">Disabled<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This state is triggered manually or automatically and is permanent. If an AD user is disabled, he can no longer log in to the network with his credentials. Unlocking is not automatic and must also be performed manually again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This state is very often used in the corporate environment for temporary timeouts of employees or as part of the exit process. In the second case, the account is deactivated and is usually only finally deleted by an automated process after a defined number of days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A deactivated account can be set in Active Directory as follows: Account \u21d2 Properties \u21d2 Account tab \u21d2 Account Options \u21d2 Check the \u201cAccount is disabled\u201d checkbox. In addition, you can directly right-click on the user object via the context menu to lock the account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-full-white-color has-secondary-4-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-8cedf1ac624732673894007bef57edee is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow padding-block-pe-full padding-inline-C1G2 padding-inline-M-C0G1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-background has-secondary-4-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0dfbf163 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex align-items-flex-start flex-flow-S-column\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow padding-bottom-S-1em width-C5G0 width-S-C10G0\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading toc-ignore has-h-1-font-size padding-bottom-0_5em\">Get the 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is-style-h3\">Locked<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>AD accounts can be transferred to this state only automatically. The trigger for this state is a multiple incorrect password entry. In this case, the account is actually set to&nbsp;<strong>\u201clocked\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;in Active Directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When exactly and for how long a user account is locked depends on how the Default Domain Policy has been configured. In this Group Policy (GPO), the account lockout options are set in the account policy area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained padding-bottom-1em padding-top-1em width-C4G0\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"411\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Disabled.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color wp-image-1510\" style=\"border-color:#d9d9d9;border-width:1px;border-radius:7px;width:620px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Disabled.png.webp 411w, https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Disabled.png-222x300.webp 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-copy-s-font-size\"><em>Example Deactivated User Account<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained padding-bottom-1em padding-top-1em width-C6G0\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"601\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Locked1.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color wp-image-1514\" style=\"border-color:#d9d9d9;border-width:1px;border-radius:7px;width:620px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Locked1.png.webp 601w, https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Locked1.png-300x135.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-copy-s-font-size\"><em>Account Lock Configuration via GPO<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Active Directory, you can\u2019t really see that the user object is locked. However, this state is visible via PowerShell.<br>There you can see if the user is locked or not by the \u201cLockedOut\u201d attribute. For this purpose you can issue the following command:<br>Get-AdUser \u201cusername\u201d -Properties LockedOut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained padding-bottom-1em padding-top-1em width-C6G0\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Locked2.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color wp-image-1517\" style=\"border-color:#d9d9d9;border-width:1px;border-radius:7px;width:620px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Locked2.png.webp 602w, https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Locked2.png-300x98.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-copy-s-font-size\"><em>Overview of a User Object via PowerShell<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>You can manually unlock an AD account by activating the \u201cUnlock account\u201d option in the \u201cActive Directory Users and Computers\u201d console for the user object via \u201cProperties\u201d \u21d2 \u201cAccount\u201d tab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading is-style-h3\">Expired<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This state occurs when an expiration date has been set for an AD user account. This is done either via the attribute \u201caccountExpires\u201d or via the context menu of the object \u201cProperties\u201d \u21d2 tab \u201cAccount\u201d \u21d2 Account expires \u21d2 On:\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained padding-bottom-1em padding-top-1em width-C4G0\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"351\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Expired.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color wp-image-1519\" style=\"border-color:#d9d9d9;border-width:1px;border-radius:7px;width:620px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Expired.png.webp 351w, https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Expired.png-223x300.webp 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-copy-s-font-size\"><em><em>ADUC &#8211; Overview of a User Object<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained padding-bottom-1em padding-top-1em width-C4G0\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized has-custom-border\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"347\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Expired1.png.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color wp-image-1521\" style=\"border-color:#d9d9d9;border-width:1px;border-radius:7px;width:620px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Expired1.png.webp 347w, https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Expired1.png-222x300.webp 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-copy-s-font-size\"><em><em><em>ADUC &#8211; Account Flow Configuration<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the day set there, the account will automatically expire and will no longer be eligible to log in to the Windows domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All accounts behave similarly after a status change: you can not log in with them anywhere in the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is one difference with the locked account. Here the object remains locked only for a certain duration and can be unlocked \u201cautomatically\u201d after this time. This duration is configured in the Default Domain Policy. 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This also includes temporary or permanent account blocking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In tenfold, the terms blocking and deactivation are also used. However, the actions behind them are different.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In tenfold,&nbsp;<strong>locking<\/strong>&nbsp;an AD user account means deactivating it within the Active Directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deactivating<\/strong>&nbsp;an AD account within tenfold, on the other hand, is only referred to in the context of a new application. In this case, the AD user is created in the Active Directory&nbsp;<strong>without a password<\/strong>&nbsp;and thus automatically&nbsp;<strong>locked<\/strong>&nbsp;by the domain controller. At the defined time, a password is set and thus the account lock is removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you talk about locking a user in the context of the user management processes, the user is usually deactivated within the Active Directory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is usually the only option for taking an account out of service and then reactivating it. This makes sense in the context of a process to handle temporary absences of a user (e.g. illness, parental leave, vacation, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,&nbsp;<strong>if you lock<\/strong>&nbsp;your account because you have entered your password incorrectly several times, there should also be a defined process for this, which cancels the lock and assigns a new password.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An AD account&nbsp;<strong>usually expires<\/strong>&nbsp;when an appropriate date has been maintained and reached on the AD account. In addition to ensuring the expiration of an AD account, an exit process should also cover other actions that address the departure of an employee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-basics-1-background-color has-background is-content-justification-space-between is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-0dfbf163 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex padding-block-pe-full padding-inline-C1G2\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-background has-basics-1-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-content-justification-right is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-5054138e wp-block-group-is-layout-flex width-C2G0\"><div class=\"wp-block-avatar max-width-150px width-C2G0\"><img alt='Christoph Schulze Avatar' src='https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cropped-Christoph-Schulze-Circle-Portrait-128x128.png' srcset='https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cropped-Christoph-Schulze-Circle-Portrait-256x256.png 2x' class='avatar avatar-128 photo wp-block-avatar__image' height='128' width='128' \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow width-C8G0\">\n<p class=\"has-h-3-font-size\">About the Author<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christoph Schulze is a Senior Consultant at permSECURE. He has been designing and supporting file server projects and helping customers to optimise their authorisation concepts since 2011.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained padding-block-pe-full padding-inline-C0G1\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-h-1-font-size padding-bottom-0_5em\">\u00c4hnliche Artikel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow width-C12G1\"><ul class=\"columns-3 wp-block-post-template is-layout-grid wp-container-core-post-template-is-layout-2fc57c17 wp-block-post-template-is-layout-grid display-flex flex-flow-M-column flex-flow-row\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3268 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-active-directory-en tag-active-directory tag-related_ad_benutzer-en\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color has-full-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow display-flex flex-flow-column margin-bottom-M-C0G1 margin-right-C0G1 overflow-hidden padding-bottom-C0G1 width-C4G0 width-M-C12G0 display-flex flex-flow-M-column flex-flow-row\" style=\"border-color:var(--theme-color-basics-2);border-width:1px;border-radius:7px;\"><figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image padding-left-M-C0G1 padding-left-S-C0G0 padding-top-M-C0G1 padding-top-S-C0G0 width-M-C6G0 width-S-C12G0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/creating-and-renaming-active-directory-groups-special-features\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AD_Gruppen.jpg.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Creating and Renaming Active Directory Groups \u2013 Special Features\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AD_Gruppen.jpg.webp 750w, https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/AD_Gruppen.jpg-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow padding-inline-C0G1 padding-top-1em\"><div class=\"taxonomy-category has-link-color wp-elements-57bb6342f41bb39ba3f65dd8300fffbc wp-block-post-terms has-text-color has-basics-3-color padding-bottom-0_5em pointer-events-none text-decoration-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/wissen\/#category-active-directory-en\/\" rel=\"tag\">Active Directory<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-211ad1cc0f2e5d4e47476b0f3c1e7f56 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-basics-6-color has-h-4-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/creating-and-renaming-active-directory-groups-special-features\/\" target=\"_self\" >Creating and Renaming Active Directory Groups \u2013 Special Features<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt padding-bottom-1em\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">IT departments in companies usually use the Active Directory directory service from Microsoft in their system landscape. User accounts, groups and other objects are stored and managed there. This article goes into the specifics of group names and the various Active Directory attributes, such<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/creating-and-renaming-active-directory-groups-special-features\/\">Show full article<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex padding-inline-C0G1\"><div class=\"wp-block-avatar\"><img alt='Christoph Schulze Avatar' src='https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cropped-Christoph-Schulze-Circle-Portrait-50x50.png' srcset='https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cropped-Christoph-Schulze-Circle-Portrait-100x100.png 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo wp-block-avatar__image' height='50' width='50' \/><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow padding-left-0_5em\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-date has-copy-s-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2022-03-11T08:04:00+00:00\">11.03.2022<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author-name has-copy-s-font-size\">Christoph Schulze<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-3281 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-active-directory-en tag-active-directory\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-border-color has-full-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow display-flex flex-flow-column margin-bottom-M-C0G1 margin-right-C0G1 overflow-hidden padding-bottom-C0G1 width-C4G0 width-M-C12G0 display-flex flex-flow-M-column flex-flow-row\" style=\"border-color:var(--theme-color-basics-2);border-width:1px;border-radius:7px;\"><figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image padding-left-M-C0G1 padding-left-S-C0G0 padding-top-M-C0G1 padding-top-S-C0G0 width-M-C6G0 width-S-C12G0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/active-directory-users-locked-or-disabled-what-is-the-difference\/\" target=\"_self\"  ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AD_Differences.jpg.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Active Directory: Users locked or disabled \u2013 What is the Difference?\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AD_Differences.jpg.webp 750w, https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AD_Differences.jpg-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow padding-inline-C0G1 padding-top-1em\"><div class=\"taxonomy-category has-link-color wp-elements-57bb6342f41bb39ba3f65dd8300fffbc wp-block-post-terms has-text-color has-basics-3-color padding-bottom-0_5em pointer-events-none text-decoration-none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/wissen\/#category-active-directory-en\/\" rel=\"tag\">Active Directory<\/a><\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"has-link-color wp-elements-211ad1cc0f2e5d4e47476b0f3c1e7f56 wp-block-post-title has-text-color has-basics-6-color has-h-4-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/active-directory-users-locked-or-disabled-what-is-the-difference\/\" target=\"_self\" >Active Directory: Users locked or disabled \u2013 What is the Difference?<\/a><\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt padding-bottom-1em\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">There are different states for Active Directory user objects. For example, one distinguishes between activated, locked or deactivated accounts. Often the question arises, what is actually the difference between a locked and a deactivated AD user account. In this article, we will go into the individual states of<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/permsecure.com\/en\/active-directory-users-locked-or-disabled-what-is-the-difference\/\">Show full article<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex padding-inline-C0G1\"><div class=\"wp-block-avatar\"><img alt='Christoph Schulze Avatar' src='https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cropped-Christoph-Schulze-Circle-Portrait-50x50.png' srcset='https:\/\/permsecure.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/cropped-Christoph-Schulze-Circle-Portrait-100x100.png 2x' class='avatar avatar-50 photo wp-block-avatar__image' height='50' width='50' \/><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow padding-left-0_5em\"><div class=\"wp-block-post-date has-copy-s-font-size\"><time datetime=\"2021-11-17T12:10:00+00:00\">17.11.2021<\/time><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author-name has-copy-s-font-size\">Christoph Schulze<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are different states for Active Directory user objects. 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