Change Auditor 7.0.4 - Installation Guide

A Source field is available in the Event Details pane that displays the name of the application from which the change event was generated (such as, Change Auditor, Active Roles, or GPOADmin). In addition, for change events generated by GPOADmin or Active Roles, the name of the user account that initiated the change is displayed in parenthesis.

All Active Directory events including Active Roles/GPOADmin initiator built-in report

A built-in report is available that retrieves events for all Active Directory changes, including those initiated by GPOADmin and Active Roles. The search definition for this report also includes the initiator information (Initiator UserName and EventSource columns) in the search results.

To execute the built-in GPOADmin search:

Open the Searches page.

Expand and select the Shared | Built-in | All Events folder to display the built-in searches available.

Locate the All Active Directory Events Including ActiveRoles/GPOADmin Initiator search and use one of the following methods to run the selected search:

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Double-click a search definition

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Right-click a search definition and select Run

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Select the search definition and click Run

A new Search Results page appears populated with the audited events that met the search criteria, including the Initiator UserName and EventSource information.

Layout tab

Columns are added to the database to record the information retrieved from GPOADmin or Active Roles. These columns are not displayed by default on a Search Results page for most searches. However, using the Layout tab you can add the following information to all searches:

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EventSource - for all events, the name of the application from which the event was generated (i.e., Change Auditor, Active Roles, or GPOADmin).

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Initiator Mail - for events generated by GPOADmin or Active Roles, the email address of the user that initiated the change.

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Initiator SID - for events generated by GPOADmin or Active Roles, the SID of the user that initiated the change.

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Initiator UserName - for events generated by GPOADmin or Active Roles, the name of the user that initiated the change.

To add new columns to the search results:

Open the Layout tab.

Locate the new columns (EventSource, Initiator Mail, Initiator SID, and/or Initiator UserName) in the Unselected Columns table.

Select the columns to add and use the right arrow button to move them to the Selected Columns table.

The column will be added to the bottom of the list or beneath the highlighted column in the Selected Columns table.

You can also drag a column to the Selected Columns table.

The Selected Columns table also displays the order the columns will be presented. To rearrange the columns, use the up and down arrow buttons located to the right of the Selected Columns table.

You can also drag columns within this table to define the order.

Who tab

When using the Who tab to retrieve change events initiated by a specific user, changes initiated by GPOADmin will not automatically be included in the search. A check is available in the Who tab which instructs Change Auditor to retrieve all change events initiated by the specified user, including those made through GPOADmin.

To include GPOADmin initiated events:

Open the Searches page.

In the explorer view (left pane), expand and select the folder where you want to save your search (e.g., Shared or Private).

Click New to enable the Search Properties tabs.

On the Who tab, click Add to add an active user, computer or group to the ‘who’ list.

On the Select one or more Directory Objects dialog, use either the Browse or Search page to search your environment to locate the user, computer or group to be included.

Once you have located the directory object to be included, select it and click Add.

Repeat this step to include each additional directory object.

After selecting one or more directory objects, click Select to save your selection and close the dialog.

Back on the Who tab, select the Include Event Source Initiator check box.


	NOTE: Including the event source initiator, may have a noticeable effect on the search performance, depending on the size of the database and the number of results returned in the search.

When this search is run, Change Auditor retrieves all events made by the specified user account, including those initiated by GPOADmin.

In addition, when this check box is selected the Initiator UserName column is added to the Search Results grid for this search. For events initiated by GPOADmin, this column contains the user account that was logged into the GPOADmin console.

Email tags

The following email tags are available which can be added to the event details of alert email notifications:

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%EVENTSOURCE% - indicates the application where the change event came from: Change Auditor, Active Roles, or GPOADmin.

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%INITIATORMAIL% - for events generated by GPOADmin or Active Roles, the email address of the user that initiated the event.

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%INITIATORSID% - for events generated by GPOADmin or Active Roles, the SID of the user that initiated the event.

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%INITIATORUSERNAME% - for events generated by GPOADmin or Active Roles, the name of the user that initiated the event.

See the Change Auditor User Guide for more information on how to configure and enable email notifications and customize email content.