July 26, 2007
Do you need read access to the Security event log, but you can't have administrator authority? Learn how to grant an account read access using SDDL in Windows Server 2003.
Windows IT Pro
July 26, 2007
Answers to your Windows security questions.
Windows IT Pro
May 24, 2007
Here's a cautionary tale that illustrates the importance of enabling auditing on workstations and member servers as well as DCs.
Windows IT Pro
December 2006
Ideally, security-monitoring and administrative responsibilities should be assigned to different people. Here's a framework for the access levels security administrators should have and some recommended tools to help them do their job.
Windows IT Security
December 2006
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November 2006
Do you log anonymous logon events on your servers? Find out how dangerous these events are and whether you can disable or block them from your security logs.
Windows IT Security
November 2006
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October 2006
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October 2006
Find out whether it's normal to log a high number of expired tickets in a short period of time.
Windows IT Security
May 2006
You can discover who made a change if the Audit account management events audit policy was enabled on your DCs at the time of the change.
Windows IT Security
April 2006
Examining event ID 560 and associated event IDs 528, 540, and 592 will give you the answers you need.
Windows IT Security
April 2006
The answer might lie in the Security event log of your Windows DC.
Windows IT Security
April 2006
User account creations create a telltale pattern in the Security log of event ID 624, followed by several instances of event ID 642 interspersed with event IDs 626 and 628.
Windows IT Security
April 2006
Get answers to your Windows security questions.
Windows IT Security
March 2006
The neuroview format makes viewing your Security log output fun.
Windows IT Security
January 2006
Use the Whoami command with the /groups option to get a report of which groups the currently logged-on user belongs to.
Windows IT Pro
January 2006
You can use security policies to allow intranet access while preventing Internet access.
Windows IT Pro
January 2006
Every month, Randy Franklin Smith answers your questions about security. Click the links above to see individual Q&As from this month's column.
Windows IT Security
January 2006
In Windows 2000 SP3 and later, event ID 643 once again logs domain policy changes, as it did in Windows NT.
Windows IT Security
December 2005
In this second part of a two-part series, we show you how to build a barebones monitoring solution by using free or inexpensive tools that are Windows event log–centric
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