Audit policy change

Active Directory Auditing Tool

The Who, Where and When information is very important for an administrator to have complete knowledge of all activities that occur on their Active Directory. This helps them identify any desired / undesired activity happening. ADAudit Plus assists an administrator with this information in the form of reports. In real-time, ensure critical resources in the network like the Domain Controllers are audited, monitored and reported with the entire information on AD objects - Users, Groups, GPO, Computer, OU, DNS, AD Schema and Configuration changes with 200+ detailed event specific GUI reports and email alerts.

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What is audit policy change?

Audit Policy Change is a security policy setting, which when enabled, specifies whether to audit every instance of a change to user rights assignment policies, audit policies, or trust policies.

You can choose to audit successes, audit failures, or not audit the event type at all. Success audit entries are generated when a change is successfully made to user rights assignment policies, audit policies, or trust policies. Failure audit entries are generated when a change made to user rights assignment policies, audit policies, or trust policies, is unsuccessful. To set this value to No auditing, select the Define these policy settings check box in the Properties dialog box for this policy setting, and deselect the Success and Failure check boxes.

This setting can be accessed by navigating to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > Audit Policy.

About ADAudit Plus

ADAudit Plus is a real time change auditing software that helps keep your Active Directory, Azure AD, Windows file servers, NetApp filers, EMC file systems, Synology file systems, Windows member servers, and workstations secure and compliant. With ADAudit Plus, you can get visibility into:

  • Authorized and unauthorized AD management changes
  • User logons, logoffs, and account lockouts
  • GPO changes
  • Group attribute and membership changes
  • OU changes
  • Privileged access and permission changes among other things.

There are more than 200 event-specific reports, and you can configure instant email alerts. You can also export the reports to XLS, HTML, PDF and CSV formats to assist in interpretation and forensics. For more information on ADAudit Plus, visit: https://www.manageengine.com/active-directory-audit/.

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