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 ...

Using the Windows Server 2003 Computer Management Console Event Viewer snap-in Your email has been sent Windows Server 2003 admins can benefit from using the various snap-ins included with the ...

Microsoft has always overlooked centralized logging in Windows. To date, the most effective way to centralize Windows Event Logs has been through event log to syslog tools and custom agents for the ...

It's not enough to get an IIS Web server up and running. You must also be able to manage the log files to track site utilization and user activity. Multiple options for logging user access activity ...

The default event logging in Windows 10 won't give you enough information to properly conduct intrusion forensics. These settings and tools will help you collect the needed log data. After a ...

My SQL Server is logging all logins to the system.<BR><BR>This obviously creates a bit more log traffic than one would normally get otherwise.<BR><BR>Two questions really:<BR><BR>1. Any reason I can't ...

[Ryan Flowers] writes in with a clever little hack that can allow you to hide data where nobody is going to go looking for it. By exploiting the fact that a web server will generally log all HTTP ...

In the software industry, data-damaging bugs are every product manager's nightmare. When a reproducible bug in this category is identified, sirens go off, vacations get canceled, engineers lose sleep, ...

The Cranefly hacking group, aka UNC3524, uses a previously unseen technique of controlling malware on infected devices via Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) web server logs. Microsoft ...