Audit account management

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2, Windows Vista

Audit account management

Description

This security setting determines whether to audit each event of account management on a computer. Examples of account management events include:

• A user account or group is created, changed, or deleted.

• A user account is renamed, disabled, or enabled.

• A password is set or changed.

If you define this policy setting, you can specify whether to audit successes, audit failures, or not audit the event type at all. Success audits generate an audit entry when any account management event succeeds. Failure audits generate an audit entry when any account management event fails. To set this value to No auditing, in the Properties dialog box for this policy setting, select the Define these policy settings check box and clear the Success and Failure check boxes.

Default:

• Success on domain controllers.

• No auditing on member servers

Configuring this security setting

You can configure this security setting by opening the appropriate policy and expanding the console tree as such: Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Security Settings\Local Policies\Audit Policy\

For specific instructions about how to configure auditing policy settings, see Define or modify auditing policy settings for an event category.

For more information about security events, see Security Events on the Microsoft Windows Resource Kits Web site.

For more information, see:

• Auditing Policy

• Auditing Security Events Best practices

• Security Configuration Manager tools