Maintaining a consistent and comprehensive auditing strategy for the Windows Server is an important part of any organization’s security plan. IT administrators have several choices at their disposal when it comes to auditing Windows Server; they can either deploy third-party solutions or make use of native methods. Whichever method you.. read more

We have just learned what to do with MS16-072 update breaking the familiar GPO mechanism, and there appeared new problems with another security bulletin released in June — MS16-077 and KB3161949 update. After this update is installed on server systems, clients from other subnets are not able to connect to.. read more

Let’s talk about the priority of Windows processes. In most cases, there is no need to think about the custom process priority settings, but sometimes a qualified system administrator can help a system to better allocate the processor time between running tasks. When is it needed? For example on the.. read more

Most Windows administrators have faced a problem, when they try to stop (restart) a service, but it gets stuck with the Stopping status. You won’t be able to stop this service from Service Management (services.msc) console, since all buttons for this service become inactive. The easiest way is to restart.. read more

The technology of Managed Service Accounts (MSA) was firstly introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 to automatically manage (change) passwords of service accounts. Using Managed Service Accounts, you can considerably reduce the risk of system accounts running system services being compromised. (It’s no secret that there are a lot of.. read more

Access-based Enumeration allows on network shared folders hide files and folders from the users who don’t have NTFS permissions to access them. Thus you can provide additional security to the information stored in the network folder (due to hiding the structure and names of folders and files), improve its usability.. read more