We offer a full range of server management services with our dedicated servers accomplished by our team of dedicated server specialists. Server management includes installation and maintenance of standard software package, security monitoring and technical support. As soon as your server is setup, it will start to execute just as you need it to execute. The following is the list of tasks accomplished by our Windows Server Administrators on customer request to maintain their dedicated server and ensure its security.

Review Audit logs

Tasks:

• Verify application log for warning and error messages for service startup errors, application or database errors and unauthorized application installs.
• Verify security log for warning and error messages for invalid logons, unauthorized user creating, opening or deleting files.
• Verify system log for warning and error messages for hardware and network failures.
• Verify web/database/application logs for warning and error messages.
• Verify directory services log on domain controllers.

Execute/clarify daily backup

Tasks:

• Run and/or clarify that a successful backup of system and data files has finished
• Run and/or clarify that a successful backup of Active Directory files has finished on at least one Domain Controller

Tag/observe system performance and activity

Tasks:

• Clarify for memory usage.
• Clarify for system paging.
• Clarify CPU usage.

Check free hard-drive space

Tasks:

• Verify all drives for adequate free space
• Take proper action as indicated by site's Standard Operating Procedures

Physical verifications of system

Tasks:

• Visually verify the equipment for amber lights, alarms, etc.
• Take proper action as indicated by Standard Operating Procedures

Update Anti-Virus signature file & do the other updates:

• Download and install current Anti-Virus signature files.
• Scan all hard-drives using current Anti-Virus signature files.
• Clarify seller websites such as Microsoft, Sun, HP, Oracle, etc for new vulnerability information including patches and hotfixes.

Summary of security measures:

• Provide Physical Security for the machine
• Plan automatic windows updates
• Use NTFS on all your partitions.
• Test & install Patches and Hotfixes
• Use passwords on all user accounts.
• Disqualify redundant services.
• Apply OS upgrades and service packs.
• Plan Downtime for Reboots.
• Create/maintain user and groups accounts.
• Set user and group security.
• Verify user account passwords.
• Rename the Administrator Account to some different or consider creating a dummy Administrator account in place of the default one.
• Changing the default RDP port to something else.
• Disqualify network sharing & default shares.
• Disqualify dump file creation, which can cause leaking of crucial information account passwords.
• Password security, turn on 'password complexity requirements' in Group Policy, so no weak passwords are setup for any accounts. Reset the passwords normally for all the accounts.
• Disqualify the default Guest account if found to be active.