Audit Logging - GPMC - 'To manage Group Policy, you must log on to the computer with a domain user account'

[DieQuie]

Good day!


First I want to start by apologizing to anyone who reads this and wants to assist.

I am no 'Systems or Servers expert', and I screwed up.

I was trying to set up 'Audit Logs' for a 2012 windows server ( In order to determine when un authorized users accessed to it)

I mistakenly and proactively took the matter on my hands and set it up by going to:


Server Manager> Local Server> Tools> Local Security Policiy


I also set them up in the SQL server DB.


After doing this, days after, not innmediately I started to get the message in the title when clicking on Group Management Console.


Also, When I try to open the Local Security Policy it gives me the error :Failed to open GPO on this computer. You might not have the approprate rights.

Details: The volume for a file has been externally altered so taht the opened file is no longer valid.


I have been trying to learn and understand these past days about what concerns this situation, but I decided to give a try and submit a question, to see of perhaps someone might be able to address my problem and throw light on this thing.



Any help, question, or instructions would be very much appreciated.

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