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 ...

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 ...

Want to see what your PC is really doing behind the scenes? This Windows tool shows everything.

Incident responders and blue teams have a new tool called Chainsaw that speeds up searching through Windows event log records to identify threats. The tool is designed to assist in the first-response ...

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 ...

Microsoft has introduced Event ID 4117 in Windows 11 and Server 2025, replacing cryptic GPP Event ID 4098 errors with ...

Microsoft adds Event ID 4117 to Group Policy Preferences, showing clearer failures and speeding up troubleshooting.

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 ...