--- title: It's elementary, my dear Network Admin! description: It's elementary, my dear Network Admin! image: https://blog.wallix.com/hs-fs/file-2828716658-jpg/blog-files/wab_search-300x68.jpg --- [![Wallix](https://blog.wallix.com/hs-fs/hubfs/LOGO_WALLIX_2024_black+orange-3.png?width=3108&height=827&name=LOGO_WALLIX_2024_black+orange-3.png "Wallix")](http://www.wallix.com/) [![New Call-to-action](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/514643/6f69a618-d11c-44ef-ad26-88703b7dcab4.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/514643/6f69a618-d11c-44ef-ad26-88703b7dcab4) # It's elementary, my dear Network Admin! [› › › BACK TO THE BLOG](https://blog.wallix.com) \[fa icon="calendar"\] Nov 7, 2014 12:22:14 PM / by [WALLIX](https://blog.wallix.com/author/wallix) ![](https://blog.wallix.com/hs-fs/hubfs/blog-files/WALLIX.png?width=35&name=WALLIX.png) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) A friend of ours over at [@experts\_911](https://twitter.com/experts_911) found this [old post](http://thedesktopteam.com/blog/david/group-policy-management-steve-and-nicks-tale/). It tells the story of how a couple of IT admins had to turn detective and figure out who had altered a Windows Group Policy which was denying access to the internet for everyone in their business. The tale continues, explaining how they had to spend a significant amount of time looking for clues and testing policies to figure out what had changed to cause such a significant problem. It’s at times like this that effective and accessible auditing can really help you out. With a Wallix AdminBastion you could find the root of this sort of issue in just 4 very simple steps: 1. Search the AdminBastion for Windows devices that have been accessed since this problem appeared [![wab_search](https://blog.wallix.com/hs-fs/file-2828716658-jpg/blog-files/wab_search-300x68.jpg?width=565&height=128&name=wab_search-300x68.jpg)](https://blog.wallix.com/hs-fs/file-2828716658-jpg/blog-files/wab_search-300x68.jpg)   2 .Because the AdminBastion captures activity as text, images and video it’s easy to see what’s happened using the screenshot [![wab_screens](https://blog.wallix.com/hs-fs/file-2828716668-jpg/blog-files/wab_screens-300x82.jpg?width=571&height=156&name=wab_screens-300x82.jpg)](https://blog.wallix.com/hs-fs/file-2828716668-jpg/blog-files/wab_screens-300x82.jpg)   3. Each of the actions shown is also a link which when clicked will play a video of what the privileged user did while logged onto that server   4 .The whole captured video can be downloaded for sharing or in this case for a debrief to make sure it doesn’t happen again   With an easily understandable audit trail you don't need to be a super sleuth wasting time hunting for clues but instead focus on keeping your business systems up and running. 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