Filter audit events (user and group)

When the auditing on domain controllers is enabled, the security log quickly grows in size (depending on your settings). When you have 200.000 records and need to quickly filter the security log for a specific event it’s usefull to know a few Event ID’s for user- and groupobjects .

In the following table the most common events for the user objects are displayed :

Event ID Description
624 User account created
626 User account enabled
627 Attempt to change password
628 Administrator has changed a password
629 Account disabled
630 User account deleted
642 Change of account properties
644 User-account locked
671 User-account un-locked

In the following table the most common events for the group objects are displayed :

Type Scope Created Changed Deleted Member    
          Added Removed  
Security            
  Local 635 641 638 636 637  
  Global 631 639 634 632 633  
  Universal 658 659 662 660 661  
Distribution      
  Local 648 649 652 650 651  
  Global 653 654 657 655 656  
  Universal 663 664 667 665 666  

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