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Group policy local auditing not working

OK, Windows 2008 forest level, 2008 and 2008 R2 domain controllers.

Using GPMC setting "computer configuration/policies/security settings/local policies/audit policy" trying to setup various auditing. After setting various auditing options I've done a gpupdate /force and I also have rebooted the DC's Auditing is only set on the 2008 DC but not on the 2008R2. What can I do about this?

Thanks.
Richard.

dan_blagut

Hello

For 2008 R2 the local settings\auditpolicy option is canceled when you set one of fine audit option in the Advanced audit policy configuration. It is ok for both by default, but when you modify one in advanced section that will take advance.

Dan

RichardPWolf

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Dan yes I saw that in the documentation. And no I haven't changed anything in the advance area. In truth until this problem arose I didn't even know about the advanced area. Finding that out I found the setting "Audit: Force audit policy subcategory settings (Windows Vista or later) to override audit policy category settings" which I set to disabled. What's odd is my only 2k8 DC server picks up the correct settings but none of my 2k8R2 DC servers are set. They all say "no auditing" using auditpol /get /category:* Reading many MS articles and others are saying to use RSOP or GPResult with a grain of salt in reading there results. So I go into the event viewer and look for event IDs for Logon/Logoff and find nothing (verified that my workstation logged into DC that I'm checking logs on). Maybe I "need" to set the auditing in the advanced area.

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RichardPWolf

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I'll give it a try. Thanks.

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RichardPWolf

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OK, understand some of what was said but don't understand this comment:

Deleted the CSE from the GPO object's gPCMachineExtensionNames attribute:

[{F3CCC681-B74C-4060-9F26-CD84535DCA2A}{0F3F3735-573D-9804-99E4-B2A69BA5FD4}]

RichardPWolf

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OK, used the first fix from Dan and it seems to work. -Mahesh- your fix seems to be a more correct way of fixing the issue however I don't understand part of the blog referenced as noted before. If all is good points will be split.

Keeping fingers crossed.

Mahesh

Ok what blog saying is according to my understanding, when you configure auditing GPO if you have 2008 and 2008 R2 both, its creating audit.csv file on 2008 R2 servers with empty settings when you create advanced audit policies on 2008 R2 causing it don't apply audit GPO, hence he is deleting that csv file from GPO\machine\windows NT\Audit folder

RichardPWolf

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Ah. That makes sense (sort of). Anyway applying the auditing settings in both areas appears to have resolved my problem. Thank you both for the assistance. Now I need to find the hair glue to put all my hair back on that I pulled trying to resolve this :)

dan_blagut

Sorry but EE don't provide hair glue. Only help...

Have a nice evening.

Dan