Audit Authorization Policy Change

 

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8

This topic for the IT professional describes the Advanced Security Audit policy setting, Audit Authorization Policy Change, which determines whether the operating system generates audit events when specific changes are made to the authorization policy.

Authorization policy changes that can be audited include:

  • Assigning or removing user rights (privileges) such as SeCreateTokenPrivilege, except for the system access rights that are audited by using the Audit Authentication Policy Change subcategory.

  • Changing the Encrypting File System (EFS) policy.

Event volume: Low

Default: Not configured

If this policy setting is configured, the following events appear on computers running the supported versions of the Windows operating system as designated in the Applies to list at the beginning of this topic, in addition to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista.

Event ID

Event message

4704

A user right was assigned.

4705

A user right was removed.

4706

A new trust was created to a domain.

4707

A trust to a domain was removed.

4714

Encrypted data recovery policy was changed.

Advanced Security Audit Policy Settings