Windows user audit

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Any additional feedback? Submit and view feedback for This product This page. They are an effective way to monitor Windows user activity to see if someone has been intruding on your privacy.

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This subcategory contains many useful events for monitoring, especially for critical domain accounts, such as domain admins, service accounts, database admins, and so on. We recommend Failure auditing, mostly to see invalid password change and reset attempts for domain accounts, DSRM account password change failures, and failed SID History add attempts. We recommend monitoring all changes related to local user accounts, especially built-in local Administrator and other critical accounts.

We recommend Failure auditing, mostly to see invalid password change and reset attempts for local accounts. For a network logon, such as accessing a share, events are generated on the computer that hosts the resource that was accessed.

Logon attempts by using explicit credentials. This event is generated when a process attempts to log on an account by explicitly specifying that account's credentials.

This most commonly occurs in batch configurations such as scheduled tasks, or when using the RunAs command. Skip to main content.