Account Management Event: 4765

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Account Management » Event ID 4765 - SID History was added to an account

Event ID 4765 - SID History was added to an account

Event ID 4765
Category Account Management
Sub category User account management
Description SID History was added to an account

When SID history is added to an account in Active Directory, event ID 4765 gets logged.

This log data gives the following information:

Subject: User who performed the action Security ID
Account Name
Account Domain
Logon ID
Target Account Security ID
Account Name 
Account Domain
Source Account Security ID
Account Name 
Additional Information Privilges
SID List

Why event ID 4765 needs to be monitored?

  1. Prevention of privilege abuse
  2. Detection of potential malicious activity 
  3. Operational purposes like getting information on user activity like user attendance, peak logon times, etc.
  4. Compliance mandates

Pro tip:

Real-time Group Policy change audit reports from ADAudit Plus audits all changes that happen to a Group Policy object over its lifetime and provides a clear insight on the history of changes made to the Group Policy object. 

Event 4765 applies to the following operating systems: 

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7
  • Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1
  • Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10
 
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