Configure Basic Domain Audit Policies

Basic local audit policies allow tracking changes to user accounts and groups and identifying originating workstations. You can configure advanced audit policies for the same purpose too. See the Configure Advanced Audit Policies topic for additional information.

1. Open the Group Policy Management console on any domain controller in the target domain: navigate to Start > Windows Administrative Tools (Windows Server 2016 and higher) or Administrative Tools (Windows 2012) Group Policy Management.

2. In the left pane, navigate to Forest: <forest_name> > Domains > <domain_name> > Domain Controllers. Right-click the effective domain controllers policy (by default, it is the Default Domain Controllers Policy), and select Edit from the pop-up menu.

3. In the Group Policy Management Editor dialog, expand the Computer Configuration node on the left and navigate to Policies → Windows Settings → Security Settings → Local Policies → Audit Policy.

4. Configure the following audit policies.

   Policy	Audit Events
   Audit logon events	"Success" and "Failure"
   Audit account logon events	"Success" and "Failure"
   Audit system events	"Success"

   

5. Run the following command to update group policy:

   gpupdate /force