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auditing within Windows so that the OS reports problems to you. Event

Viewer enables you to read the logs created by auditing. You can then do

your work and report those problems. Let’s take a look.

Auditing The Security section of Event Viewer doesn’t show much by

default. To unlock the full potential of Event Viewer, you need to set up

auditing. Auditing in the security sense means to tell Windows to create an

entry in the Security Log when certain events happen, such as when a user

logs on (called event auditing) or tries to access a certain file or folder (called

object access auditing). Figure 27-16 shows Event Viewer tracking logon and

logoff events.

Figure 27-16 Event Viewer displaying security alerts

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