4902(S): The Per-user audit policy table was created.

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Event 4902 illustration

Subcategory: Audit Policy Change

Event Description:

This event generates during system startup if Per-user audit policy is defined on the computer.

Note  For recommendations, see Security Monitoring Recommendations for this event.


Event XML:

- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
 <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing" Guid="{54849625-5478-4994-A5BA-3E3B0328C30D}" /> 
 <EventID>4902</EventID> 
 <Version>0</Version> 
 <Level>0</Level> 
 <Task>13568</Task> 
 <Opcode>0</Opcode> 
 <Keywords>0x8020000000000000</Keywords> 
 <TimeCreated SystemTime="2015-10-01T00:05:25.814466500Z" /> 
 <EventRecordID>1049490</EventRecordID> 
 <Correlation /> 
 <Execution ProcessID="520" ThreadID="556" /> 
 <Channel>Security</Channel> 
 <Computer>DC01.contoso.local</Computer> 
 <Security /> 
 </System>
- <EventData>
 <Data Name="PuaCount">1</Data> 
 <Data Name="PuaPolicyId">0x703e</Data> 
 </EventData>
 </Event>

Required Server Roles: None.

Minimum OS Version: Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista.

Event Versions: 0.

Field Descriptions:

Number of Elements [Type = UInt32]: number of users for which Per-user policies were defined (number of unique users). You can get the list of users for which Per-user policies are defined using “auditpol /list /user” command:

Auditpol list user illustration

Policy ID [Type = HexInt64]: unique per-User Audit Policy hexadecimal identifier.

Security Monitoring Recommendations

For 4902(S): The Per-user audit policy table was created.

  • If you don’t expect to see any per-User Audit Policies enabled on specific computers (Computer), monitor for these events.

  • If you don’t use per-User Audit Policies in your network, monitor for these events.

  • Typically this is an informational event and has little to no security relevance.