I take it.. from your reply... that it is possible to put triggers on Instance level settings.. like Linked Servers, Job Log settings, ect... not sure how to do that, I do know how to create a trigger on a table... I guess Microsoft is storing that data someplace, but not sure where... or even if it is one of the system databases that we have access to (msdb, or master would be the only two that I would guess this data is stored in... that is not a hidden database)