Auditing capability in Microsoft Windows Server has always been a somewhat unsophisticated affair: either filling up event logs so quickly that they truncate or spiralling out of control. Extraneous ...

Have you ever scrolled through the Windows Server DHCP logs in the Notepad app while trying to troubleshoot something? Then you know that it's a tedious task. There are many alternatives to Notepad ...

Knowing what’s in your Event Logs is a key to knowing what your servers are doing. Here’s how to make sense of them. Have you taken a look in the Event Viewer lately? Are you afraid to? Does it just ...

Audit logging of Office 365 mail reads makes forensics investigations of attacks much easier. Here's how to make sure it's enabled. Ensuring that audit logs are enabled for Microsoft Office 365 can ...

In Event Viewer, Audit Success is an event that records an audited security access attempt that is successful, whereas Audit Failure is an event that records an audited security access attempt that ...

Does anyone have recommendations for (or warnings to stay away from) auditing software for Windows file servers? I'm looking for something that can give me access reports to shared folder & files ...

Event 4688 documents each program a computer executes, its identifying data, and the process that started it. Several event 4688s occur on your system when you log into a system. For example, Session ...

I've got a Windows 2003 Server with a folder that disappears periodically and needs to be restored from a backup.<BR><BR>To figure out how it's vanishing, I've enabled auditing in the security ...

Windows servers deployed globally support an assortment of applications from inventory to payroll to Web server software. Businesses depend on these servers, which makes stability and security ...