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        Audit Collection Services (ACS)

Section(s): Admin , Security
Published on Jul 19, 2005.
Last Modified on Jul 19, 2005.
Last Modified by Mitch Tulloch.
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Microsoft's Audit Collection Services (ACS) is coming soon to simplify collection and management of Security logs throughout your organization.

Microsoft will soon release Audit Collection Services (ACS), a tool for pulling Security logs from Windows servers to a centralized location to simplify security auditing and log analysis. ACS will use an agent-based architecture and will collect logs into a SQL Server database. There's no date yet for when this product will be released, but you can find mention of it in this security chat on Microsoft's website so it will likely be soon.

About Mitch Tulloch

Mitch Tulloch was lead author for the Windows Vista Resource Kit from Microsoft Press, which is the book for IT pros who want to deploy, maintain and support Windows Vista in mid- and large-sized network environments. Mitch was also the author of Introducing Windows Server 2008 and technical project lead for the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Resource Kit, both books also from Microsoft Press. For more information on these and other books by Mitch, see www.mtit.com .