Configure Security Auditing

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008

You can use Fax Service Manager to enable security auditing and assign ownership for an object.

If you enable auditing, you can track user attempts to perform fax operations and configuration changes, log on and off computers, and change audit settings. You can choose a group or user account, and then choose which fax operation to audit for each group or user. You can select a success or failure attribute for each fax operation. The results will appear in Event Viewer.

To configure security auditing for fax users and resources

  1. To first confirm that system auditing is enabled, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Local Security Policy.

  2. In the left pane, double-click Local Policies, and then click Audit Policy.

  3. In the right pane, double-click Audit system events, and then do the following:

    1. To enable auditing when an event is successful, click Success.

    2. To enable auditing when an event fails, click Failure.

  4. Then, to configure auditing, open Fax Service Manager.

  5. In the left pane, right-click Fax, and then click Properties.

  6. On the Security tab, click Advanced, and then click the Auditing tab.

  7. To set up auditing for a new user or group, click Add. In Enter the object name to select, type the name of the user or group for which you want to audit events.

  8. To remove auditing for an existing user or group, click the name, and then click Remove

  9. To view or change auditing for an existing user or group, click the name, click Edit, and then under Access, select the check boxes for the operations you want to audit.

Additional considerations

To configure fax components, you must be a member of the Administrators group or you must have been delegated the appropriate authority. As a security best practice, consider using Run as to perform this procedure.

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