Group Policy change auditing is highly important for all organizations utilizing Group Policy in their IT environments. Native Group Policy management tools don't offer built-in auditing capabilities. Manual audit of changes made to security policies, desktop configurations, software deployment and other settings can be time consuming, unsecure and error-prone.

The freeware NetWrix Group Policy Change Reporter makes Group Policy auditing and change reporting convenient and easy to implement. The reports generated by this product display who made the change and when the change was made, with additional setting-level change details. For example, you can detect changes to software restriction policy, restricted groups, firewall settings, and many other areas. The product is available both in freeware and commercial versions.