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Event ID

612

Title

Audit Policy Change

Type: Example: Randy's Comments:
Success

OS:

All versions

Category:

Policy Change

New Policy:
SuccessFailure
+ +Logon/Logoff
+ +Object Access
+ +Privilege Use
- -Account Management
+ +Policy Change
+ +System
- -Detailed Tracking
+ +Directory Service Access
+ +Account Logon

Changed By:
User Name:W2DC$
Domain Name:ELMW2
Logon ID:(0x0,0x3E7)

This indicates the system's audit policy was modified. Pluses indicate auditing was enabled, minuses indicate it was disabled. Unfortunately the Change By fields don't identify who actually changed the policy because audit policy isn't directly configured by administrators. Instead it is edited in a group policy object which then gets applied to the computer. Therefore this event always shows the local computer as the one who changed the policy since the computer is the security principal under which gpupdate runs.

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