Microsoft: New Windows updates fix Active Directory policy issues

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to address a known issue affecting local audit logon policies in Active Directory Group Policy. As the company explained, these local policy issues might only manifest as a reporting inconsistency since it's possible that logon and logoff events are correctly being audited on some of the affected devices. "Microsoft has identified an issue where audit logon/logoff events in the local policy of the Active Directory Group Policy might not show as enabled on the device even if they are enabled and working as expected," Microsoft said in a Microsoft 365 message center update. "This can be observed in the Local Group Policy Editor or Local Security Policy, where local audit policies show the 'Audit logon events' policy with security setting of 'No auditing'." When enabled, the "Audit logon events" policy setting lets admins decide whether to audit logon and logoff events and generate new entries in the audit logs. These logs recor ... Read full article.