RE: Windows Log

["Meredith, Charles (HRD)" <Charles.Meredith () state ma us>]

Kind of related...
While researching a similar problem, I found a tool that will help manage the archival of logs (you might want to do 
this). We wanted to keep an archive of audit logs (logon and logoff events) so I found a freeware utility from 
SysInternals called psloglist that will automatically clear and save your audit/security logs. 
http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsLogList.html
Regards,
Chuck

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Subject: Re: Windows Log

There are many types of logins that can be performed in an an AD environment.  Among these are full desktop logins by a 
user (aka interactive login), non-interactive network logins (e.g. mount a share), computer accounts authenticating to 
the domain, etc.

I would venture a guess that you don't want to disallow the ability to log other security events, but want to easily 
find login events of some type (see above) without having to wade through the full set of logged data.  If this is the 
case, you could simply filter the logs to show the event id that is specific to the action you are looking to see.

You could use the built-in "Event Viewer" application for it, EventCombMT (Google it), one of the resource kit log 
dumping utilitities, VBScripts, or just about anything else to export this info.  Some VBScript examples are below:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/logs/eventlog/default.mspx

I dare say that if you're trying to audit security on a box, you don't want to hack up the data collection facility, 
but want to simply get better use from that data.

My two cetns.

On 1/16/06, Rod <rod.rio () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Win2k Server, who is my Domain Controller, and I'd like it to 
> log only the LOGON/LOGOFF events. I know that there are a whole class 
> of logon/logoff events, but I´d like to log only when a user logon 
> into a machine in the domain.
>
> Hope I was clear... thx
>
>
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