Security Engineer

Albert Widjaja

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You need a tool like from Quest or any other 3rd party vendor, as logs need to be stored somewhere, so you can review team. Event log size is limited and won't help you.
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<p>Thank you both for the advisement. &nbsp;Making the changes accordingly and will post back shortly.</p>
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<p>Hey Experts. &nbsp;Need to enable auditing on a file server for a particular directory and all child directories/files. &nbsp;The permissions for the HR directory is locked down via NTFS permissions however the decision was made to log all access attempts (successful or unsuccessful). &nbsp; Having done this never and with this being a delicate topic at the office, I decided to ask how to implement this.</p><p><br></p><p>Server is Windows 2012 (we are migrating to a Windows 2022 server but the directory that HR sits under doesn't move until next week) and we are in an Active Directory domain. &nbsp;I enabled auditing and used "Everyone" as the principal with the policy applied to that folder and all subfolders/files.</p><p><br></p><p>Is there more to it then that? &nbsp;What do I look for in the event viewer to see if the directory was accessed (un/successful)?&nbsp; I appreciate your help and guidance.</p>
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Hey Experts.  Need to enable auditing on a file server for a particular directory and all child directories/files.  The permissions for the HR directory is locked down via NTFS permissions however the decision was made to log all access attempts (successful or unsuccessful).   Having done this never and with this being a delicate topic at the office, I decided to ask how to implement this.
Server is Windows 2012 (we are migrating to a Windows 2022 server but the directory that HR sits under doesn't move until next week) and we are in an Active Directory domain.  I enabled auditing and used "Everyone" as the principal with the policy applied to that folder and all subfolders/files.
Is there more to it then that?  What do I look for in the event viewer to see if the directory was accessed (un/successful)?  I appreciate your help and guidance.

You need a tool like from Quest or any other 3rd party vendor, as logs need to be stored somewhere, so you can review team. Event log size is limited and won&#39;t help you.


Thank you both for the advisement.  Making the changes accordingly and will post back shortly.

Enable auditing on HR directory - Windows file server


Hey Experts.  Need to enable auditing on a file server for a particular directory and all child directories/files.  The permissions for the HR directory is locked down via NTFS permissions however the decision was made to log all access attempts (successful or unsuccessful).   Having done this never and with this being a delicate topic at the office, I decided to ask how to implement this.
Server is Windows 2012 (we are migrating to a Windows 2022 server but the directory that HR sits under doesn&#39;t move until next week) and we are in an Active Directory domain.  I enabled auditing and used &quot;Everyone&quot; as the principal with the policy applied to that folder and all subfolders/files.
Is there more to it then that?  What do I look for in the event viewer to see if the directory was accessed (un/successful)?  I appreciate your help and guidance.

This topic area includes legacy versions of Windows prior to Windows 2000: Windows 3/3.1, Windows 95 and Windows 98, plus any other Windows-related versions including Windows Mobile.

Windows OS

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.