Configuring the advanced security audit policy

This recipe shows how to configure the advanced security audit policy.

Getting ready

To configure the advanced security audit policy, sign in to a domain controller with a user account that is a member of the Domain Admins group.

How to do it...

Perform these steps to configure the advanced security audit policy:

1. Press Start.
2. Search for Group Policy Management and click its search result, or run gpmc.msc. The Group Policy Management window appears.
3. In the left navigation pane, navigate to the Domain Controllers OU for the domain in which you want to configure the advanced security audit policy and expand it.
4. Select Default Domain Controllers Policy. The Group Policy Management Console pop-up window may appear, notifying you that you have selected a link to a GPO and that changes you make here are global to it and will impact all other locations where it is applied. Click OK.
5. Right-click Default Domain...