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Event ID 4767: A user account was unlocked

Windows Event ID Lookup: What Windows event IDs mean: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 7045, 1102 and 3,000 more, with Windows' own message text, the fields and what to check.

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Try: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 1074, 7045, 1102, 4104, 1149

A user account was unlocked.

Event 4767
Security-Auditing
Security log
Audit Success

A locked-out user account was unlocked by an administrator.

What to check: Pairs with the 4740 that locked it; if lockouts repeat, find the source in 4740's Caller Computer Name first.

Related: 4740

Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them) 
A user account was unlocked.

Subject:
	Security ID:		…
	Account Name:		…
	Account Domain:		…
	Logon ID:		…

Target Account:
	Security ID:		…
	Account Name:		…
	Account Domain:		…