This post discuss about ADAM/ADLDS auditing. We have lots of very good documents on TechNet about ADAM and ADLDS which briefly mention auditing, but there isn't one single document where you can find all auditing related information.  So this should be helpful!  Note: information here applies to both ADAM and ADLDS unless otherwise stated.  To be current with things I will use LDS to refer to ADAM and ADLDS. First is first: Auditing is supported on WS03 (ADAM) and WS08 (ADLDS) but not in XP. Auditing is also improved in ADLDS with the new DS Access auditing categories

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