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Audit process tracking-This category audits highly detailed tracking information about program activation, process exit, handle duplication, and indirect object access.Audit privilege use-This category audits the attempt by users to exercise the use of their assigned user rights.Audit policy change-This category generates an event when a user attempts to change a user rights assignment policy, audit policy, or trust policy.Individual AD objects to be monitored must have their SACL configured to be monitored. Audit object access-This category audits the attempt by a user to access an object, such as files, folders, registry keys, or printers, among others.Audit logon events-This category generates an event when a user attempts to login or log out of a computer using a local computer account.The process of enabling this will be discussed shortly. Individual AD objects to be monitored must have their System Access Control List (SACL) configured to be monitored. Audit directory service access-This category audits the attempt by users to access AD objects.It also audits the setting or change of a password. Audit account management-This category audits the creation, change, renaming, or deletion of user accounts or groups.Audit account logon events-This category generates an event when a user attempts to login or log out of a computer using a domain account.
#WINDOWS SERVER USER ACTIVITY AUDIT WINDOWS#
Though these categories are not new to Windows Server 2008, there remains some confusion about their use. Categories and event types are enabled based on the types of events you are interested in logging to the Windows Security Event Log. Each category has the ability to enable auditing for both Success and Failure events. Figure 1 shows a configured policy as seen within the Group Policy Management Editor.įigure 1: An example of AD auditing as enabled through the Default Domain Controllers Policy.Īs you can see, a number of auditing categories are exposed through Group Policy.
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Enabling auditing in this manner ensures that auditing settings are configured consistently across all domain controllers. Enabling the basic auditing of AD events on domain controllers is most often performed using Group Policy through modification of the native Default Domain Controllers Policy. The process to enable auditing in Windows Server arrives relatively unchanged from its implementation in previous OS versions. It will provide specific guidance and step-by-step instructions to assist you, the administrator, with making best use of AD's new auditing features.
#WINDOWS SERVER USER ACTIVITY AUDIT UPGRADE#
This white paper will discuss the new audit capabilities specific to AD gained through an upgrade to Windows Server. AD itself gains four new logging subcategories that assist with the monitoring of configuration changes and replication in addition to object accesses. With Microsoft's release of Windows Server, audit logging gains new levels of granularity associated with configurable event categories and subcategories, while a new Windows Event Log improves the process of filtering for and locating events of interest. At the same time, auditing requirements brought about by industry and governmental compliance regulations have increased the criticality for effective and consistent logging in many network environments. By including only a small number of log categories, the result of enabling logging is a vast amount of excess data that must be managed in order to capture auditable actions of interest. Nine general categories of auditing have traditionally been available, all of which result in a fairly coarse level of logging to the Windows Event Log. Throughout the history of the Windows operating system (OS), the features available to enable and monitor auditing for Active Directory (AD) have been relatively limited.