Auditing capability in Microsoft Windows Server has always been a somewhat unsophisticated affair: either filling up event logs so quickly that they truncate or spiralling out of control. Extraneous ...

For Windows 2003, Microsoft has enabled some of the audit settings that create security event tracking. The question is how to get events to show up in the Security Log or change what’s being recorded ...

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For Windows 2003, Microsoft has enabled some of the audit settings that create security event tracking.

This post explains Audit Success or Failure in Event Viewer generated by changes to accounts, objects, policies, privileges, & other system events.

Then if I open the Event Viewer and select Security under Windows Logs, I see a bunch of Audit Success entries for task category "Audit Policy Change" (event 4719).

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