Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Security event logs from domain controllers

In order to collect security logs from remote domain controllers, we need to add a network service account to the channel access permissions of the security event log. This is because the WinRM service is running under the network service account. This can be done by running the following code:

wevtutil sl security /ca:'O:BAG:SYD:(A;;0xf0005;;;SY)(A;;0x5;;;BA)(A;;0x1;;;S-1-5-32-573)(A;;0x1;;;S-1-5-20)'

O:BAG:SYD:(A;;0xf0005;;;SY)(A;;0x5;;;BA)(A;;0x1;;;S-1-5-32-573)(A;;0x1;;;S-1-5-20) contains READ permission settings for network service account (A;;0x1;;;). In the preceding code, the SID value for the network service account is (S-1-5-20), and the channel access value is (O:BAG:SYD:(A;;0xf0005;;;SY)(A;;0x5;;;BA)(A;;0x1;;;S-1-5-32-573)) ...