You're reading from Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition Design, deploy, and protect Active Directory Domain Services for Windows Server 2022

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070393

Length 780 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2022

3. Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2022

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services – Part 01

12. Active Directory Services – Part 02

13. Active Directory Certificate Services

14. Active Directory Federation Services

15. Active Directory Rights Management Services

16. Active Directory Security Best Practices

17. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

18. Hybrid Identity

19. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

Windows Logs

The Windows Logs section includes five Windows log files. These mostly contain OS-related events:

Application log: This log contains the events collected from various applications running on the system. These events can be from Microsoft or any other application.
Security log: This log includes events such as successful and failed system login attempts. Engineers can specify which security events need to be recorded using audit policies.
Setup log: This includes events related to application setup and adding/removing server roles.
System log: This log includes events related to Windows system components. As an example, an event related to an automatic service start failure will be listed under this log.
Forwarded Events: Using Event Viewer, we can connect to another remote computer and view the events. However, it may be required to watch for specific events from multiple sources. As an example, let's assume we need to collect events...