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Event ID 21 — Remote Desktop Services: Session logon succeeded.

Provider
Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager
Channel
Operational
Level
Informational
Collection Priority
Recommended (Yamato Security, others)

Description

Remote Desktop Services: Session logon succeeded.

Message #

Remote Desktop Services: Session logon succeeded:

User: %1
Session ID: %2
Source Network Address: %3

Fields #

NameDescription
EventXML.User—
EventXML.SessionID—
EventXML.Address—

Example Event #

{
  "system": {
    "provider": "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager",
    "guid": "5D896912-022D-40AA-A3A8-4FA5515C76D7",
    "event_source_name": "",
    "event_id": 21,
    "version": 0,
    "level": 4,
    "task": 0,
    "opcode": 0,
    "keywords": 1152921504606846976,
    "time_created": "2023-11-05T22:32:20.885688+00:00",
    "event_record_id": 128,
    "correlation": {
      "ActivityID": "61A55000-55E5-1017-0000-000000000000"
    },
    "execution": {
      "process_id": 484,
      "thread_id": 704
    },
    "channel": "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager/Operational",
    "computer": "WinDev2310Eval",
    "security": {
      "user_id": "S-1-5-18"
    }
  },
  "user_data": {
    "EventXML": {
      "User": "WINDEV2310EVAL\\User",
      "SessionID": 1,
      "Address": "LOCAL"
    }
  },
  "message": ""
}

Community Notes #

Remote desktop services shell start. Occurs when a user successfully establishes a session and the shell starts, confirming a successful interactive logon.

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