So, I decided to perform a full system security audit of my Windows PC. It revealed something a bit concerning: software that ...

Have you ever wondered how OEMs deploy Windows 11/10 OS with their own set of apps and drivers? Or how does the recovery partition help you to reinstall everything as if the computer is brand new?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Is there a way to track and audit Windows printing jobs so we can tell who printed what document and when? Yes, if your workstations all print through server-hosted shared printers, you can turn on ...