Tracking an object move/rename

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Chuck Chopp

I can get Account Management events in the security eventlog for certain
specific operations that have been performed on users & groups, such as
creating/deleting a user or group, adding/removing group members, and even
changing certain naming attributes such as the SAM Account Name or the User
Principle Name.

What I can't seem to readily track are actual object naming changes that
involve a change to the RDN of the object itself. For example, in ADUC, you
can hit F2 on a selected user or group and rename the object w/o making any
changes to the SAM Account Name or the User Principle Name. However,
there's no Account Management event generated for this type of change. I'm
thinking that I may need to fall back on using the DirSync control in a
search operation to track this sort of change. It would also be desirable
to track object moves regardless of whether or not the object is renamed so
that I could identify when a user or group moves between a container and an
OU, or vice versa, or between 2 different OUs in the same domain, or even
between domains in the same forest. Ideally, I'd like to capture the rename
or move event, along with both the old & new FDN values for the object and
the object's GUID, too.

Am I missing something obvious in terms of auditing settings for AD that
could be enabled to cause these types of changes to be reported in an eventlog?


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Are you auditing for the correct action and attribute. Event id 566
(one of the series) is generated when the CN (full name) changes and
event id 642 is generated for the display name
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# Jorge de Almeida Pinto #
 
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