Security Compliance

Reduce event noise from service account auditing in SEM

This article describes how to use the auditpol command to reduce auditing on certain Windows accounts so as to avoid logging audit events for the account. This command disables all auditing on a user account and the syntax will depend on the Windows version to be used.

First published date

10/17/2018 2:34 PM

Last published date

10/17/2018 2:34 PM

Overview

This article applies to Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager).

This article describes how to reduce auditing on certain Microsoft Windows accounts to avoid logging audit events for the account. 

Product section

Security Event Manager

Resolution

Wse the auditpol command to exclude Windows accounts from logging and avoid events related to the account from being generated. See the following Microsoft articles for additional reference:

(© 2017 Microsoft Corporation, available at https://technet.microsoft.com/, obtained on April 3, 2017.)


Depending on your Windows Server version, the commands to disable all auditing on a user account may be similar to the following:

auditpol /set /user:DomainName\ServiceAccountUser /exclude /category:*

auditpol /set /user:LocalServiceAccountUser /exclude /category:*

Note: Different versions of Windows have different formats for the auditpol command. 

 

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