After fresh installation of Windows Server domain controller you could see that you have no winlogon.log file which is useful to debugging AD gpo's.
For example when you need to troubleshot SceCli events.Event ID 1202 tells you to use:
FIND /I "Cannot find" %SYSTEMROOT%\Security\Logs\winlogon.log
But, hey! There are no winlogon.log file!
This is by design :).
To create it, go to regedit and track following key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\GPExtensions\{827D319E-6EAC-11D2-A4EA-00C04F79F83A}
Click the key ExtensionDebugLevel and enter 2 as a Data.
After refreshing AD policies with gpupdate you should see your winlogon.log file
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