Time for a Friday night post. Microsoft PFE raise the absence of system performance baselines pretty much in every Risk Assessment Program (RAP) or Health Check . Customers do not generally create performance baselines. So, what are the typical uses for a performance baseline? Troubleshooting performance...

(Simple high-level step-by-step for the admin that does not require screenshots. The process below is probably useful for building a lab, production deployments would require little more planning.) Basic Info TMG is basically an Outbound Proxy. UAG is basically an Inbound Proxy. TMG consists...

The other day I was asked to assist with implementing the scenarios below: Scenario 1: Alert for changes to the ‘Domain Admin’ group membership Scenario 2: Alert when the Audit Policy is changed (Default Domain or Domain Controller) Scenario 3: Alert when xx number of unsuccessful...

Scenarios that are discussed in this blog post include: Scenario 1: Computers joined to the domain (names and description) Scenario 2: User passwords expired Scenario 3: User accounts locked out Scenario 4: Group policy changes Scenario 1: Computers joined to the domain (names and description) The following...

Manually enable the ‘Operations Manager Audit Forwarding Service’ (AdtAgent.exe). Regedit > [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\AdtAgent\Parameters] > New > Multi-String Value > AdtServers > ‘CollectorFQDN’ Note: Step 2 resolved Event ID 4369 (with a blank list of collectors...