Windows 7 logon audit

For user logon, you have to search for and event IDs. For failed logon, you have to search for For logoff events, you have to search for and In this article, we are searching for events and The following screenshot shows Windows Event ID for the user logon attempted using explicit credentials.

The solution collects log on information from all added domain controllers automatically. Its report contains details on logon or logoff events, including when users logged in, from which computer, and when. You get accurate and instant reports on login details of users in the network. The following screenshot shows a successful user logon report event captured by Lepide Active Directory Auditor:. In this article, the steps to audit the user logon and logoff events through native auditing are explained.

However, much noise is generated for the logon or logoff events that make it complicated for the IT administrators to have a real-time view. If this policy setting is configured, the following events appear on computers running the supported versions of the Windows operating system as designated in the Applies To list at the beginning of this topic, in addition to Windows Server and Windows Vista.

Advanced Security Audit Policy Settings. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Multiple events are generated for a single event and it is very difficult to search for a particular event in the large pool of events. Event Viewer also consumes a lot of disk space to store the events for long term. With this, you can make the entire auditing process simple and thus helps to maintain secure AD environment.

Figure 1: Successful User Logon Logoff report. Figure 2: Failed Logon Report. It is very easy to install and configure. You can download the Day free trial and test your own. Tick this box if you want to receive product updates, news and other cool marketing stuff. Thanks for Downloading.