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Microsoft has expanded Microsoft Entra’s logging toolkit with a set of targeted capabilities that give administrators far better visibility into agent activity, service-to-service authentication, and richer sign-in attributes — features designed to improve security monitoring, incident...

PowerToys quietly hides a few genuinely time-saving features behind its polished dashboard — tools for backing up your entire configuration, automatic diagnostic logs you can read yourself, and an easy plugin system that turns the launcher into a Swiss Army knife. These three capabilities alone...

Robocopy is the built‑in "power tool" Windows 11 users should reach for when copying large folders, migrating drives, or building resilient backups — it resumes interrupted transfers, supports multi‑threaded copying, logs everything, and can be automated into scheduled tasks for repeatable...

Much of keeping a Windows PC feeling fast and reliable comes down to discipline—regular cleanups, timely scans, and dependable backups—and automating those chores with the built‑in Windows Task Scheduler is one of the most effective ways to remove the human factor from maintenance and make a...

CVE-2025-53138 — RRAS information disclosure: what admins need to know now By [Your Name], WindowsForum.com — August 12, 2025 Summary Microsoft’s Security Response Center lists CVE-2025-53138 as an information‑disclosure vulnerability in the Windows Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS)...

As more organizations shift apps and workloads to cloud environments, robust security practices are no longer optional—they’re essential. Microsoft Azure, one of the world’s leading cloud platforms, has continuously evolved its security offerings to address the modern threat landscape. In this...

Hello, I hope someone can help with this issue. I have a requirement to configure file system logging on my windows file server and I have setup the security policy to track file system object access but I am not getting Event ID 4663 (An attempt was made to access an object). These are the...

I am getting a slew of Event 521 in the WIndows Security Log on about half my DCs. they are triggering Critical Alerts in ADAudit, so I need to determine the cause and resolve it. So far, I have • Rebooted the DC • Confirmed adequate disk space • Confirmed permissions on the .evtx...

Hi, I think that troubleshooting on windows is one of the more timeconsuming tasks, especially for novives, and finding information, explanations, definitions of windows featutres likelogging is really difficult, sources are often incomplete or thise i find dont explain what i am looking for...

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Can anyone advise a program for monitoring installed software that tries to access the internet? Firewall in interactive mode can do this too of course, or Task Manager too, I'm looking for something specialised, with logging or statistics etc. Thanks for the tips Peter

Hi, one of the optimize tip for ISS is to disable logging. But does someone here know how much this can speed up the website? Will it be a huge performance win, or not noticeable at all? /L

Hi All Experts, I met the issue when I tried to use the netsh trace on Windows 10 build 685. In previous version 630, I use the netsh trace with persist=yes to record the network message and all as normal whatever I restart the OS. But after I update my Windows 10 to build 685, every time...

I am currently in the middle of testing a hack on a Windows 10 virtual machine via brute force attack. I successfully hacked into the Windows 10 (victim) machine via OpenSSH port which I opened myself I have looked on Windows Event viewer and have noticed that it shows the attack attempts and...

How to Turn on Debug Logging of the LDAP Client (Wldap32.dll) Continue reading...

Discusses event ID 5719 or Group Policy event 1129, which are logged if you have a Gigabit network adapter installed on a Windows-based compute. Provides a resolution. Continue reading...

Original release date: October 3, 2018 Systems Affected Network Systems Overview The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is aware of ongoing APT actor activity attempting to infiltrate the networks of global managed service providers (MSPs). Since May 2016...

Hello I have hosted a VPN server using the add role and feature in windows server 2012 r2 is there any way to log all the websites that have been accessed while on the VPN. atm i can log visited websites ips but not the URL's.

It seems to me that the well known command sfc /scannow ..... appends all logmessages to a possibly already existing CBS.LOG file rather than create a new logfile. Is this correct? So if I want to have a fresh logfile just with the results from the last sfc run I have to manually delete the...

I did a lot of research these days and found no useful informations (to me, at least): I want a simple program to read CPU (and possibly GPU) temperatures, but I also want that program to send those values to a usb (connected to an arduino), making programs like Speedfan or HWMonitor not...