If you are like most administrators, you want to know who is logging on, to which computer, and accessing resources on your servers. For your Windows computers and Active Directory environment, you ...

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 ...

This article is also available as a TechRepublic download. Most of the time, when a Windows related article talks about audit logs, those logs are security related. When it comes to the DHCP services ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Having an issue today. It seems like DNS records for various workstations are disappearing from DNS. On the DNS server, I'm seeing DNS 520 events. It looks like the host itself is sending dynamic ...

I need to audit access on a specific folder on a file server. I have enabled "Object access" in the local policy and configured the folder to audit access from my user account "full control" success ...