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Windows event log ยท Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy/Operational4004 Starting manual processing of policy for COMPUTER

Starting manual processing of policy for computer {PrincipalSamName}. Activity id: {PolicyActivityId}

  • Windows operational
  • 6 fields
  • Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy%4Operational.evtx
  • Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy

Fields EvtxECmd extracts

6 columns in the EvtxECmd CSV

  • UserName%PrincipalSamName%
    • %PrincipalSamName% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="PrincipalSamName"]
  • PayloadData1DomainJoined: %IsDomainJoined%
    • %IsDomainJoined% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="IsDomainJoined"]
  • PayloadData2BackgroundProcessing: %IsBackgroundProcessing%
    • %IsBackgroundProcessing% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="IsBackgroundProcessing"]
  • PayloadData3AsyncProcessing: %IsAsyncProcessing%
    • %IsAsyncProcessing% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="IsAsyncProcessing"]
  • PayloadData4ServiceRestart: %IsServiceRestart%
    • %IsServiceRestart% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="IsServiceRestart"]
  • PayloadData5Reasonforsyncing: %ReasonForSyncProcessing%
    • %ReasonForSyncProcessing% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="ReasonForSyncProcessing"]

Sample event

Event XML from the map file

<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy" Guid="{aea1b4fa-97d1-45f2-a64c-4d69fffd92c9}"/>
    <EventID>4004</EventID>
    <Version>1</Version>
    <Level>4</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>1</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-05-23T16:29:22.9386942Z"/>
    <EventRecordID>512864</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation ActivityID="{41242399-fbd6-42f2-a8ce-48300011574d}"/>
    <Execution ProcessID="8416" ThreadID="5124"/>
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy/Operational</Channel>
    <Computer>COMPUTER</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-18"/>
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="PolicyActivityId">{41242399-fbd6-42f2-a8ce-48300011574d}</Data>
    <Data Name="PrincipalSamName">USERNAME</Data>
    <Data Name="IsMachine">1</Data>
    <Data Name="IsDomainJoined">true</Data>
    <Data Name="IsBackgroundProcessing">true</Data>
    <Data Name="IsAsyncProcessing">false</Data>
    <Data Name="IsServiceRestart">false</Data>
    <Data Name="ReasonForSyncProcessing">0</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

References

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Source: evtx/Maps/Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-Operational_Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy_4004.map(opens in new tab) by Tony Knutson and contributors(opens in new tab), MIT License(opens in new tab)