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 ...

As an administrator, you have a great many tools at your fingertips. One of the tools you do not want to ignore is Active Directory Auditing. By auditing certain events, you can record which user is ...

Does anyone know of a nice little Active Directory auditing system for user and group accounts? I'm thinking of rolling my own from the generated event logs but we're on Server 2003 and the event logs ...

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 ...

Patching alone won't fix all known Active Directory vulnerabilities. Here are the steps to audit your Active Directory domains and shore up weaknesses. If you have a traditional domain, it’s time to ...

Microsoft on Thursday announced a preview release of Azure Active Directory Activity Logs, which show up in Azure Monitor. Azure AD Activity Logs describe the operations that were performed in an ...

Long story short I changed the Default Domain GPO (stupid I know) so that only Administrators had the Manage auditing and security log right under Computer Configuration > Security Settings > Local ...