Audit account management This security setting determines whether to audit each event of account management on a computer. ...

Audit account management

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 values on Client editions:

  User Account Management: Success
  Computer Account Management: No Auditing
  Security Group Management: Success
  Distribution Group Management: No Auditing
  Application Group Management: No Auditing
  Other Account Management Events: No Auditing

Default values on Server editions:

  User Account Management: Success
  Computer Account Management: Success
  Security Group Management: Success
  Distribution Group Management: No Auditing
  Application Group Management: No Auditing
  Other Account Management Events: No Auditing

Important: For more control over auditing policies, use the settings in the Advanced Audit Policy Configuration node. For more information about Advanced Audit Policy Configuration, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=140969.