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The Domain Admins group in Active Directory (AD) is used to assign administrative roles to users in the domain. By default, it's a member of the Administrators group and therefore carries a set of privileges associated with it.
Members of the Domain Admins group have unrestricted access to shared resources and AD objects. On account of the privilege it holds, memberships and membership changes of the Domain Admins group must be extensively audited. This page elaborates the steps for auditing activities of this group.
Perform the following actions on the domain controller (DC):
Once this policy is enabled, whenever a user is added to the security-enabled group, corresponding events are logged under the DC's security log category.
Once the above steps are complete, events will be stored in the event log. This can be viewed in the Event Viewer by following the steps below:
The section labeled Subject shows who added the new user.
The section labeled Member shows the name and SID of the new user that was added to the group.
This method is exhausting since you have to view each event's description to find the one that pertains to the Domain Admins group.
ADAudit Plus, a streamlined AD auditing tool, enables admins to effortlessly audit security group membership changes and other group management information.
Distinctly monitor all AD events, and see who added the user to the Domain Admin group along with details on when and where.
Configure alerts, and receive notifications via SMS or email whenever a user account is added to a security-enabled group.
Distinctly monitor all AD events, and see who added the user to the Domain Admin group along with details on when and where.
Configure alerts, and receive notifications via SMS or email whenever a user account is added to a security-enabled group.