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Event ID 1101: Audit events have been dropped by the transport

Windows Event ID Lookup: What Windows event IDs mean: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 7045, 1102 and 3,000 more, with Windows' own message text, the fields and what to check.

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Audit events have been dropped by the transport.

Event 1101
Eventlog
Security / System log
Error
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
Audit events have been dropped by the transport.  …

The computer will be locked because the user has exceeded the maximum number of failed logon attempts allowed on this computer.

Event 1101
Winlogon
System log
Warning
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
The computer will be locked because the user has exceeded the maximum number of failed logon attempts allowed on this computer. A recovery key is required to unlock the device.
UserSid: … 
UserName: … 
UserDomain: …

The processing of Group Policy failed.

Event 1101
GroupPolicy
System log
Error
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not locate the directory object …. Group Policy settings will not be enforced until this event is resolved. View the event details for more information on this error.