I'm seeing hundreds of failed login attempts for "administrator" on one of
my web servers.
The administrator account has a limit of 20 attempts, then a lockout for 30
minutes.

Recently I noticed that regular users had access to each others
roaming
profiles. I followed Microsoft documentation to set appropriate ntfs
permissions here:

We have a Windows 2003 server with a share setup for users to access and
store documents.  In the past few days we noticed word documents
disappearing from various folders within this share.  When we restore these
documents from tape to these directories they remain for a couple ...

I have a user that was a domain admin. I have found several folders sitting
out there on various servers that have been restricted to his user account
only, I had to take ownership to be able to delete the folders.
Is there a program that can scan my servers for these weird ...

Using Windows XP
Sorry if I'm in the wrong place (wouldn't be surprised, its been one of
those days). Anyway, to cut a long story short, I have a small test network
for dev work. The two dev machines just belong to Workgroup (I don't

I have been utilizing some of the ideas presented by Michael Howard at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncode/html/sec
ure11152004.asp
and have some questions regarding the application of SAFER policies via GPO.
I have made modifications to the ...

I have a reset password CD and to use it I need to get into the bios before
the OS starts up to reset the administrators’ password. How can I get into
the bios to change the administrators password? I do not know the password
for the administrator and wish to set it to blank. I ...

I have a reset password CD and to use it I need to get into the bios before
the OS starts up to reset the administrators’ password. How can I get into
the bios to change the administrators password? I do not know the password
for the administrator and wish to set it to blank.

I am looking for a reporting tool for NTFS rights on a server share.  Any suggestions?
Thanks,
-SA

Hi all, I need to create some rulez for an apllication that my buisness have
developed to get a beautifull web interface of every thing that is audit in
here. It is like a filter that take everything from the event viewer and
check if a rule can apply to it. My problem is, I need ...

If you where to set up a VPN Server, where would you typical place it?
I plan to set up a W2K3 server as a VPN server for out little network.
Should we locate it in the DMZ or could we safely located within our
internal LAN and only open the necessary ports to allow inbound ...

My security logs (2 servers) are full of success audits for event id 836 and
837.  I have not been able to find any useful information as what these
events actually are or why they are occuring so often.  Can someone shed some
light on this for me?

I couldn't launch my newly intalled appl (  monitoring s/w ).  System say it's due to Data Encryption Protection ?
How do I disable Data Encryption Protection in W2K3 Svr ?
Thanks
Jim

I would like to know what is the difference between Enterprise Sub CA and
Standalone Sub CA when installed in a domain ?
Is the difference in terms of requiring certificate templates in Enterprise
Sub CA and not in Standalone Sub CA or something else ?

Hi everyone, is it possible to prohibit a local administrator to kill a
specific process through task manager. I have quite a lot of local
administrators that are killing the anti-virus process.
Thanks to all,