This exercise walks you through the steps you must take to generate some auditing events and to examine the data collected for these actions. In this exercise, you will perform some actions that will be audited, and then you will view the information recorded within the audit logs.
- In the Active Directory Users And Computers tool, navigate to the Engineering OU, right-click the Bob Engineer User account, and select Properties.
- On the Bob Properties dialog box, add the middle initial A for this user account and specify Software Developer in the Description box. Click OK to save the changes.
- Within the Engineering OU, right-click the Robert Admin User account and select Properties.
- On the Bob Properties dialog box, add a description of Engineering IT Admin, and click OK.
- Close the Active Directory Users And Computers tool. Be sure to save your settings as described in the Help Documentation.
- Open the Event Viewer tool from the Administrative Tools program group. Select the Security item. You will see a list of audited events categorized under Directory Service Access. Note that you can obtain more details about a specific item by double-clicking it.
