Auditing Security Events Concepts

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Concepts

This section provides general background information about auditing:

• Auditing overview

• Viewing security logs

• Operation-based auditing on files or folders

• Auditing settings on objects

• How inheritance affects file and folder auditing

• Selecting where to apply auditing entries

• Per-user selective auditing