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Hi,<br />
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Please see the below link for best practice to determine who made permission changes to an AD object.<br />
<a href="http://blog.pluralsight.com/windows-server-2008-auditing-active-directory" rel="ugc">http://blog.pluralsight.com/windows-server-2008-auditing-active-directory</a>
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Hi,

Please see the below link for best practice to determine who made permission changes to an AD object.
http://blog.pluralsight.com/windows-server-2008-auditing-active-directory [http://blog.pluralsight.com/windows-server-2008-auditing-active-directory]

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Auditing will have to be turned on as well as ACLs... see this:<br />
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<a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/d13bbd74-1570-42f5-bdcf-5b597f1887c0/how-to-determine-who-last-modified-ad-object?forum=ITCG" rel="ugc nofollow">http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/d13bbd74-1570-42f5-bdcf-5b597f1887c0/how-to-determine-who-last-modified-ad-object?forum=ITCG</a>
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Auditing will have to be turned on as well as ACLs... see this:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/d13bbd74-1570-42f5-bdcf-5b597f1887c0/how-to-determine-who-last-modified-ad-object?forum=ITCG [http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/scriptcenter/en-US/d13bbd74-1570-42f5-bdcf-5b597f1887c0/how-to-determine-who-last-modified-ad-object?forum=ITCG]

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Experts,<br />
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What is the best practice to determine who made permission changes to an AD object? I know the account and have a general time frame of when the chance was made. <br />
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Thank you very much!
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Experts,

What is the best practice to determine who made permission changes to an AD object? I know the account and have a general time frame of when the chance was made. 

Thank you very much!

How to audit changes to AD objects/accounts?

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