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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm trying to figure out how audit policy settings work, and there's something I don't understand. This is Windows 7 64-bit (my home PC). Not in a domain. In the group policy editor, under Computer ...

Troubleshooting a Windows PC can oftentimes be quite a bore—and depending on your specific issue, it can either be pretty easy or absolute hell. And if you're doing so right now, you might want to ...

Recently Google announced two zero-days that impacted both the Chrome browser and Windows 7 operating system. Google released an update to Chrome to protect users from the issue, and Microsoft patched ...

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 ...

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 ...