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Audit Certification Services

Certification Services is the built-in Certification Authority and related PKI functionality in Windows Server and this category provides exhaustive auditing of related activity. To configure this on Server 2008 and Vista you must use auditpol. Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 and later can use Group Policy.

Coverage on events generated by this category are currently in the Security Log Encyclopedia:

Event ID	Title
4868	The certificate manager denied a pending certificate request.
4869	Certificate Services received a resubmitted certificate request.
4870	Certificate Services revoked a certificate.
4871	Certificate Services received a request to publish the certificate revocation list (CRL).
4872	Certificate Services published the certificate revocation list (CRL).
4873	A certificate request extension changed.
4875	Certificate Services received a request to shut down.
4876	Certificate Services backup started.
4877	Certificate Services backup completed.
4878	Certificate Services restore started.
4879	Certificate Services restore completed.
4880	Certificate Services started.
4881	Certificate Services stopped.
4882	The security permissions for Certificate Services changed.
4883	Certificate Services retrieved an archived key.
4884	Certificate Services imported a certificate into its database.
4885	The audit filter for Certificate Services changed.
4886	Certificate Services received a certificate request.
4887	Certificate Services approved a certificate request and issued a certificate.
4888	Certificate Services denied a certificate request.
4889	Certificate Services set the status of a certificate request to pending.
4890	The certificate manager settings for Certificate Services changed.
4891	A configuration entry changed in Certificate Services.
4892	A property of Certificate Services changed.
4893	Certificate Services archived a key.
4894	Certificate Services imported and archived a key.
4895	Certificate Services published the CA certificate to Active Directory Domain Services.
4896	One or more rows have been deleted from the certificate database.
4897	Role separation enabled
4898	Certificate Services loaded a template.
4899	A Certificate Services template was updated.
4900	Certificate Services template security was updated.

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