Audit Group Membership

By using Audit Group Membership, you can audit group memberships when they’re enumerated on the client computer.

This policy allows you to audit the group membership information in the user’s logon token. Events in this subcategory are generated on the computer on which a logon session is created.

For an interactive logon, the security audit event is generated on the computer that the user logged on to. For a network logon, such as accessing a shared folder on the network, the security audit event is generated on the computer hosting the resource.

You must also enable the Audit Logon subcategory.

Multiple events are generated if the group membership information cannot fit in a single security audit event

Event volume:

Low on a client computer.
Medium on a domain controller or network servers.

Computer Type	General Success	General Failure	Stronger Success	Stronger Failure	Comments
Domain Controller	Yes	No	Yes	No	Group membership information for a logged-in user can help to detect that member of specific domain or local group logged in to the machine (for example, member of database administrators, built-in local administrators, domain administrators, service accounts group, or other high value groups).For recommendations for using and analyzing the collected information, see the Security Monitoring Recommendations sections.This subcategory doesn’t have Failure events, so this subcategory doesn’t have a recommendation to enable Failure auditing.
Member Server	Yes	No	Yes	No	Group membership information for logged in user can help to detect that member of specific domain or local group logged in to the machine (for example, member of database administrators, built-in local administrators, domain administrators, service accounts group, or other high value groups).For recommendations for using and analyzing the collected information, see the Security Monitoring Recommendations sections.This subcategory doesn’t have Failure events, so this subcategory doesn’t have a recommendation to enable Failure auditing.
Workstation	Yes	No	Yes	No	Group membership information for a logged-in user can help to detect that member of specific domain or local group logged in to the machine (for example, member of database administrators, built-in local administrators, domain administrators, service accounts group, or other high value groups).For recommendations for using and analyzing the collected information, see the Security Monitoring Recommendations sections.This subcategory doesn’t have Failure events, so this subcategory doesn’t have a recommendation to enable Failure auditing.

Events List:

4627(S): Group membership information.