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How can I search Windows security events to track which admin users logged on or off our domain computer?

pateld
Explorer

Hi

How can I use Window security events to track which admin users ("-admin") did log on or log off into our domain computer?

thanks

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

First you need to build a list of Domain Controllers and save it as a lookup. Let's assume that you have done this and it has a single column/field called host and is in a lookup definition called DCs (pointing to a lookup file called anything you like). Then you can do this:

index=yourIndexHere "Account Name" = "*-admin*" (EventCode="538" OR EventCode="4634" OR EventCode="528" OR EventCode="540" OR EventCode="4624" OR EventCode="551" OR EventCode="4647") [|inputlookup DCs] 

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woodcock
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First you need to build a list of Domain Controllers and save it as a lookup. Let's assume that you have done this and it has a single column/field called host and is in a lookup definition called DCs (pointing to a lookup file called anything you like). Then you can do this:

index=yourIndexHere "Account Name" = "*-admin*" (EventCode="538" OR EventCode="4634" OR EventCode="528" OR EventCode="540" OR EventCode="4624" OR EventCode="551" OR EventCode="4647") [|inputlookup DCs] 
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