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Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Check the Size of My Event Log and Then Backup and Archive It If It Is More Than Half Full?

April 8, 2009 Apr 8, 2009 04/8/09

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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have recently enabled additional security auditing on our network, and I do not want to increase the size of those logs due to the fact that they are already huge. I do not want to turn on circular logging because I need to keep an audit trail for compliance reasons. I need to write a script that I use to check...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Query Event Logs to Discover Active Directory Information?

April 7, 2009 Apr 7, 2009 04/7/09

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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have this problem at work. I keep finding groups in Active Directory, and I do not know why they were created or by whom. I am wondering if there is some way to search Active Directory to see who created a group. Is there an owner attribute or something that would let me know who created it? If I can find that...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Check My Event Logs?

April 6, 2009 Apr 6, 2009 04/6/09

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(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! When I received my Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification several years ago, I remember the instructor jumping up and down and telling us that we were not doing our job if we do not check the event logs on a daily basis. When I got my first job as a network administrator, I did a pretty good job...