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Change Auditor 7.4 - User Guide

Change Auditor Overview Agent Deployment Change Auditor Client Overview Overview Page Searches Search Results and Event Details Custom Searches and Search Properties Enable Alert Notifications Administration Tasks Agent Configurations Coordinator Configuration Purging and Archiving your Change Auditor Database Disable Private Alerts and Reports Generate and Schedule Reports SQL Reporting Services Configuration Change Auditor User Interface Authorization Client Authentication Certificate authentication for client coordinator communication Integrating with On Demand Audit Enable/Disable Event Auditing Account Exclusion Registry Auditing Service Auditing Agent Statistics and Logs Coordinator Statistics and Logs Change Auditor Commands Change Auditor Email Tags

Email event details

To email an event’s details:
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Open a Search Results tab and select an event from the Search Results grid.
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Use one of the following methods to email the selected event’s details:
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Right-click the event in the Search Results grid and select Email.
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From the Event Details pane, click the Email tool bar button.
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NOTE: You can also hold down the Shift key while clicking the Email button to email additional event details. This additional information may be requested from the Quest Support staff for troubleshooting purposes.
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This creates a new email containing the contents of the Event Details pane. Enter the recipient's email address (in the To and CC fields) and edit the subject line if desired.
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Click Send.
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If applicable, the Internet Connection wizard will be displayed allowing you to create a new Internet account, which includes the following information:
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display name as you would like it to appear in the From field of the outgoing message
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your email address
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your incoming mail server
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your outgoing mail (SMTP) server

Add comments

To append comments to an event which can then be later specified as search criteria to retrieve all the events that contain a specific comment or keyword.

To add comments to an event:
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Open a Search Results tab and select an event from the Search Results grid.
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Use one of the following methods to add or append comments to the selected event:
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Right-click the event and select Comments.
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From the Event Details pane, click the Comments tool bar button.
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This will display the Comments dialog. In the New Comments text box at the bottom of this dialog, enter the comments to be associated with the selected event.
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Click OK to close the dialog and return to the Search Results tab.
To view comments:
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Open a Search Results tab and select an event from the Search Results grid.
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Use one of the following methods to view or append comments to the selected event:
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Right-click the event and select Comments.
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From the Event Details pane, click the Comments tool bar button.
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This will display the Comments dialog where previously entered comments are displayed in the top pane.
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To append a new comment to those that already exist, use the text box at the bottom of the screen to enter your new comment.
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Click OK to close the dialog and return to the Search Results tab.

View user context and run related searches

From the Event Details pane you can view additional details about the user who initiated the change, view resource details about the computer where the change occurred, or run related searches based on the who, where, what, when or origin of the event selected in the Search Results grid.

Expand Related Search on the Event Details pane to display the options available, which are based in the selected event:

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Who: Select this to run a query for all change events generated by this user during the same date interval as that specified in the When tab of the selected event.
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View Contact Card: For events with a user object, select this to view contact information and group membership for this user.
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Where: Select this to run a query for all change events captured by this agent during the same date interval as that specified in the When tab of the selected event.
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View Resources: Select this to display the Resource Properties pane for this server, which includes: Machine Info, Processors, Drives, Shares, Services, and if applicable Exchange Mailboxes.
See Resource Properties pane for more details about the resource details provided.
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What: Select this to run a query for change events captured for this event class during the same date interval as that specified in the When tab of the selected event.
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When: Select this to run a query for change events that occurred on this date.
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Origin: Select this to run a query for change events that originated from this workstation or server during the same date interval as that specified in the When tab of the selected event.
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Object: Select this to run a query for change events generated against this object during the same date interval as that specified in the When tab of the selected event.
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NOTE: When selecting an object that contains a path, the related search will only return related events where the full paths are the same.
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NOTE: This last option is the object from the original event, such as a file or folder, directory object, registry key, etc.
To view the contact information and group membership for a user:
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At the top of the Search Results page, select an event to display the related Event Details pane.
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At the top of the Event Details pane, click the arrow to the right of the Related Search tool bar button and select View Contact Card.
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The contact information appears for the user who initiated the change in the selected audit event. In addition, the Member Of pane on this dialog lists the groups to which this user belongs.
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Click OK to close this dialog.
To run a query for events generated by the same user:
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At the top of a Search Results page, select an event to display the related Event Details pane.
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At the top of the Event Details pane, click the arrow to the right of the Related Search tool bar button.
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Click the first entry in the context menu, which is the name of the user who initiated the change in the selected audit event.
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A new Search Results page appears populated with all change events generated by this user during the same date interval as that specified in the When tab of the selected event.
Note that the user’s name is used as the Search Name (name on tab) for this new query.
To view resource properties about the server where the change occurred:
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At the top of the Search Results page, select an event to display the related Event Details pane.
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At the top of the Event Details pane, click the arrow to the right of the Related Search tool bar button.
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Select View Resources.
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The Resource Properties pane appears which contains additional details about the server where the change occurred. See Resource Properties pane for more information about the content of the tabbed pages on this pane.

Protect critical objects, mailboxes, files and folders

Protect critical objects, mailboxes, files and folders

When viewing events, administrators can create protection templates to protect against unauthorized modifications to the following:

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Active Directory objects
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ADAM (AD LDS) objects
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Group Policy Objects
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Exchange mailboxes
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File System files and folders
To protect an object, mailbox, file, or folder:
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Open a Search Results tab and select an event from the Search Results grid.
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From the Event Details pane, click the Protect Object tool bar button.
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This opens the required Object Protection Wizard for the selected object.
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