Audit Account Logon Events

Windows 10

To access, do the following

Open Local Security Policy
Expand Local Policies

Expand Audit Policy

Double-click Audit account logon events

Your choices are

This setting might not be enforced if other policy is configured to overide category level audit policy. for more information, see Audit account logon events. (Q921468) (Note: this is to an external site.)

Audit account logon events

This security setting determines whether the OS audits each time this computer validates an account’s credentials.

Account logon events are generated whenever a computer validates the credentials of an account for which it is authoritative. Domain members and non-domain-joined machines are authoritative for their local accounts; domain controllers are all authoritative for accounts in the domain. Credential validation may be in support of a local logon, or, in the case of an Active Directory domain account on a domain controller, may be in support of a logon to another computer. Credential validation is stateless so there is no corresponding logoff event for account logon events.

If this policy setting is defined, the administrator can specify whether to audit only successes, only failures, both successes and failures, or to not audit these events at all (i.e. neither successes nor failures).

Default values on Client editions:

Credential Validation: No Auditing
Kerberos Service Ticket Operations: No Auditing
Other Account Logon Events: No Auditing
Kerberos Authentication Service: No Auditing

Default values on Server editions:

Credential Validation: Success
Kerberos Service Ticket Operations: Success
Other Account Logon Events: No Auditing
Kerberos Authentication Service: Success

Important: For more control over auditing policies, use the settings in the Advanced Audit Policy Configuration node. For more information about Advanced Audit Policy Configuration, see https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=140969.