Audit Changes to Group Policies

An Interesting question came up at work this week. That was

How do you Audit the fact that someone has modified a Group Policy ?

Well the general concensus was the following;

Check out the following excellent blog article

Windows Security Logging and Other Esoterica : Monitoring Group Policy Changes with Windows Auditing

http://blogs.msdn.com/ericfitz/archive/2005/08/04/447951.aspx

Useful and excellent article on exactly what settings to Audit .

But also 3rd party tools have a part to play here, such as Quest and Netpro.