Symptoms
After you enable auditing of the server-level audit action group SCHEMA_OBJECT_CHANGE_GROUP in Microsoft SQL Server 2016, you can no longer perform online index rebuild for tables that contain large object (LOB) columns.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server:
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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