Account Management Event: 4783

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Account Management » Event ID 4783 - A basic application group was created

Event ID 4783 - A basic application group was created

Event ID 4783
Category Account Management
Sub category Application group management
Description A basic application group was created

In Active Directory, when a baic application group is created, event ID 4783 gets logged.

This log data gives the following information:

Subject: User who performed the action Security ID
Account Name
Account Domain
Logon ID
Group Security ID
Group Name 
Group Domain
Attributes SSAM Account Name
SID History
Additional Information Privileges

Why event ID 4783 needs to be monitored?

  1. Prevention of privilege abuse
  2. Detection of potential malicious activity 
  3. Operational purposes like getting information on user activity like user attendance, peak logon times, etc.
  4. Compliance mandates

Pro tip:

ADAudit Plus alerts and tracks critical activities such as creation, deletion or modification of user/group/computer, thus making Active Directory auditing much easier. 

Event 4783 applies to the following operating systems: 

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
  • Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10

Corresponding event ID for 4783 in Windows Server 2003 and older is 667

 
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