Top 11 Windows Audit Policy Best Practices
This is the ultimate guide to Windows audit and security policy settings. In this guide, I will share my tips for audit policy settings, password and account policy settings, monitoring events, benchmarks and much more. Table of contents: What is Windowing Auditing Use The Advanced Audit Policy Configuration Configure Audit Policy for Active Directory Configure…
Continue ReadingHow to Configure Group Policy Central Store
In this post, you will learn how to configure and manage the group policy central store. What is the Group Policy Central Store? The group policy central store is a central location to store all the group policy template files. This eliminates the need for admins to load and open group policy template files on…
Continue ReadingActive Directory Glossary – Terms and Fundamental Concepts
In this post, I’m going to list and explain the most commonly used terminology in Active Directory and related technologies. If you are new to Active Directory, this will be a great resource for you to get familiar with Active Directory basics and fundamental concepts. I’ve grouped terms together in different sections to make it…
Continue ReadingHow to Configure DNS Aging and Scavenging (Cleanup Stale DNS Records)
In this tutorial, I’ll show you step by step instructions for setting up DNS aging and scavenging on Windows DNS Servers. What is DNS Aging and Scavenging? It is a Windows DNS Server feature that will automate the cleanup of stale dynamically registered DNS records. DNS Scavenging will only remove records based on their timestamp.…
Continue ReadingConfigure DNS Reverse Lookup Zones and PTR Records (Windows Server 2016)
In this tutorial, I’ll show you step by step instructions for configuring reverse DNS lookup zones and PTR Records on Windows Server 2016. Reverse lookup zones are used to resolve IP addresses to a hostname. For reverse lookup zones to work they use a PTR record that provides the mapping of the IP address in…
Continue ReadingDNS Best Practices: The Definitive Guide
This is the most comprehensive list of DNS best practices and tips on the planet. In this guide, I’ll share my best practices for DNS security, design, performance and much more. Table of contents: DNS Best Practices Have at least Two Internal DNS servers Use Active Directory Integrated Zones Best DNS Order on Domain Controllers…
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