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Windows event log ยท Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy/Operational4005 Starting manual processing of policy for USER

Starting manual processing of policy for user {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>4005</EventID>
    <Version>1</Version>
    <Level>4</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>1</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x4000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2022-05-22T21:47:54.4303572Z"/>
    <EventRecordID>511656</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation ActivityID="{384ca94a-510c-4ce3-b104-9ef593805492}"/>
    <Execution ProcessID="8188" ThreadID="10916"/>
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy/Operational</Channel>
    <Computer>COMPUTER NAME</Computer>
    <Security UserID="SID"/>
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="PolicyActivityId">{384ca94a-510c-4ce3-b104-9ef593805492}</Data>
    <Data Name="PrincipalSamName">USERNAME</Data>
    <Data Name="IsMachine">0</Data>
    <Data Name="IsDomainJoined">false</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_4005.map(opens in new tab) by Tony Knutson and contributors(opens in new tab), MIT License(opens in new tab)