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So if I want to check when all files rights are changed, user rights changed, disabled users, enabled, all these types of things, I can do this with domain wide GPO and apply it to everyone or just do it for the default domain controler policy... if i apply it to the default domain controller policy will it pick up all the changes? since the changes have to be made to an item that lives onthe DC?<br />
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make sense?
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So if I want to check when all files rights are changed, user rights changed, disabled users, enabled, all these types of things, I can do this with domain wide GPO and apply it to everyone or just do it for the default domain controler policy... if i apply it to the default domain controller policy will it pick up all the changes? since the changes have to be made to an item that lives onthe DC?

make sense?

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I would like to enable auditing on my domain for both exchange and active directory. Do I need to have GPO that touches the entire enterprise if i want to enable auditing? or can i set the auditing on the server, i would like to track when a user is changed, password updated, disabled/ enabled, and when the rights are changed. Any help would be great.<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Matt
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I would like to enable auditing on my domain for both exchange and active directory. Do I need to have GPO that touches the entire enterprise if i want to enable auditing? or can i set the auditing on the server, i would like to track when a user is changed, password updated, disabled/ enabled, and when the rights are changed. Any help would be great.

Thanks

Matt

Auditing AD and Exchange

Exchange is the server side of a collaborative application product that is part of the Microsoft Server infrastructure. Exchange's major features include email, calendaring, contacts and tasks, support for mobile and web-based access to information, and support for data storage.

Exchange

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).