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 ...

As a PC user, diagnosing performance issues, blue screens, and weird behavior comes with the territory. Windows is often the culprit behind many of these problems, but it also has a built-in ...

This publication defines a baseline for event logging best practices to mitigate cyber threats. It was developed by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) ...

Microsoft says that apps may encounter issues accessing event logs on remote Windows 10 devices unless KB5003637 or later updates are installed on both systems. "Event logs might not be accessible ...

In this post, we will show you how to use Event Viewer to check for unauthorized use of a Windows computer. While Windows Event Viewer comes across as a useful tool for viewing event logs and fixing ...

Have older Windows systems on your network? You can give them PowerShell 5's event logging capabilities even if they run Windows 7. You might think that something as basic as PowerShell, Microsoft’s a ...

Oh, I'm really pleased about THIS one from Microsoft.... NOT. After we've been trying to nail down a problem with servers overwriting events for over 6 months, we decided to do some digging ourselves, ...

Microsoft adds HMAC protection to CLFS in Windows 11 25H2 and Server 2025, improving security while increasing disk and I/O ...

Event Viewer is a handy tool that allows you to view and analyze detailed logs of various events on your computer. It is pretty useful when your system goes through a crash and you are trying to find ...

Has anyone implemented an event logging system? I'm working in a 2008 R2 functional level domain, with all DCs set up as source computers and a 2008 r2 collection server, and I'm having a great deal ...