5.5 Configuring Group Policy Monitoring

Change Guardian monitors the following:

  • Group policies objects

  • Preferences

  • Settings

  • Starter group policy objects

  • SYSVOL

This section provides the following information:

5.5.1 Implementation Checklist

The following table provides an overview of the tasks required for Change Guardian to start monitoring Group Policy events:

Task

See

Complete the prerequisites

Prerequisites

Add the license key

Adding a License Key

Configure Change Guardian for monitoring

Creating GPO Policies

Triage events

You can triage events in the Change Guardian dashboard and the Administration Console.

5.5.2 Prerequisites

Ensure that you have completed the following:

5.5.3 Creating GPO Policies

You can create policies to monitor the following event sources:

Group Policy Objects Policies for deleting and modifying group policies and domain policy.

Group Policy Preferences Policies for changes to local user and group preferences to GPO.

Group Policy Settings Policies for modifying software settings.

Starter Group Policy Objects Policies for creating, deleting, and modifying starter group policies.

SYSVOL Policies for changing Central Store and SYSVOL folder

For information about creating fresh policies, see Creating Change Guardian Policies.

After creating policies, you can assign them to assets. For information about assigning policies, see Working with Policies.