4756
A member was added to a security-enabled universal group
- Log: Security
- Source: Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
- Account changes
- Warning
What it means
Someone was added to a universal group, which includes Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins.
Why it matters
Changes to forest-wide admin groups are rare and high-impact.
What to do
- Treat unexpected changes as an incident until explained.
Find it with PowerShell
Get-WinEvent -MaxEvents 20 -FilterHashtable @{
LogName = 'Security'; Id = 4756
} | Select-Object TimeCreated, ProviderName, MessageAdd -ComputerName SERVER to query another machine. Other event sources can reuse the same ID number, so check the ProviderName column.
Source
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