Audit object access

- [Instructor] Typically, if we want to go ahead … and enable auditing, all we have to do is come … into Group Policy and select the particular event … and enable the success and/or failure of that event. … But there is one exception to the rule, … and that is when trying to audit object access, okay? … Everything else, that's all you have to do. … But when it comes to auditing object access, … we have to do a second step. … And the reason why, let's think about this for a minute. … If we look at the screen as it is now, … where auditing object access has been set up, … it's been turned on for successes and failures. … Now this has to do with anybody who's accessing any … of our resources, files, folders, things like that. … Any object in our network. … Could you imagine how long the audit logs will be … if we just turned it on, and it just started auditing … every time somebody accessed anything on the entire network? … Whether they succeeded or failed, there'd be an entry. … That's just too much. …