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.

Policy path: 

Computer Configuration\Windows Settings\Local Policies\Audit Policy

Default: 

Success on domain controllers. No auditing on member servers.

Supported on: 

At least Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003

Registry settings: 

Audit Policy security settings are not registry keys.

Reboot required: 

No

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