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Event Viewer - scheduling backups of event logs
You (Tim and you, as you prefer to put it, although I could almost swear that I am too) are talking about creating an Event Log, and writing to it. Yes, this is done via the System registry, but the registry does not have a single set of permissions for all registry keys. It has highly granular permissions.

Permission error trying to write to Event Log
Michael Harris mik...@mvps.org microsoft public scripting wsh WSH doesn't provide any read access to the event logs. You'll need to use WMI... -- Michael Harris Microsoft.MVP.Scripting -- mik...@mvps.org Please do not email questions - post them to the newsgroup instead.

Event log file corrupt?
I am looking for some info/samples of how to write to the Win2K event logs from VC. Any direction would be appreceiated. Tom Here's 2 examples. One simple, one a little more fancy. Normally with EventLog entries, the majority of the body text remains inside your application to save space in the log, only parameter

Windows 2000 event logs
David Nickason gwdib...@frontiernet.net microsoft public backoffice smallbiz You can just open the saved logs in event viewer (File/ Open). I have my logs set to 1mb max size, overwrite events over 7 days. I am able to go back 4 months in system log and 2 months in app log. I don't save anything older than that.

Event Logs
Carey cnfri...@midsouth.rr.com microsoft public windowsxp perform_maintain Fix Corrupt Event Log Files One of the administrative tools in Microsoft Management Console, Event Viewer maintains logs about program, security, and system events on your computer. You can use Event Viewer to view and manage the event logs,

IIS Crashes periodically with event log: IActiveScriptParse ...
Scott Schnoll [MVP] scott_schn...@msn.com microsoft public win2000 general Hi, My company, TNT Software, has a free utility called ClearEL that can be used to clear an event log from a command prompt. You can get ClearEL at http://www.tntsoftware.com/products/ClearEL.exe. Hope this helps. -- Regards, Scott Schnoll

Viewing Event Logs
How can an administrator prevent non-administrator view access to the event logs? The policy only references preventing the guest account. I want only a DA to see the App/Sys/NTFRS/NTDS/DNS & of course security event logs. The security event logs are truly locked down to only administrators, but how can one do the

Lock down Event Logs?
HERE'S JUST A FEW OF THE EVENT LOGS OF CONCERN (re: too many to list here): Event Type: Information Event Source: RemoteAccess Event Category: None Event ID: 20158 Date: 7/10/2003 Time: 10:56:35 AM User: N/A Computer: SERVER Description: The user User Name successfully established a connection to The Internet (2)

COM+ Error Reporting: Event log vs. textfile
NET/C# MVP] nicholas.pald...@exisconsulting.com microsoft public dotnet languages csharp James, I would think that the user making the call is the user that is stored in the event log. Are you seeing different behavior than that? If you want to have another user (and assuming the above statement is correct),

managing event logs ...
2) Logon/Logoff success auditing (event ID 528, logon type 3; or event 540) will show you all the users who accessed that machine from the network. 3) Please post the event in question. Event Viewer has a "copy to clipboard" button for this purpose. 4) ??? Maybe there are events in the system log,

How to read event logs?
Configure the Source, Log and Machine. Right-click the event log and select "Add Installer". Configure the installer as desired. When you build the web application, the installer will be built into the .dll in the bin\ directory. During deployment, after copying the files, run: installutil -i bin\site.dll This will

copying and clearing custom event logs
Jerold Schulman Je...@jsiinc.com microsoft public win2000 general On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 00:17:15 -0700, "John Qubert" <qub...@softhome.net> wrote: I wish to send the Event Logs remotely for weekly administrative perusal. I have a script which zips up the event logs and e-mails them to me so I do not have to log on to

Reading Event Log from 9x?
Unfortunately, this is one of those places where just saying it's a log doesn't tell us what we need to know. A little better explanation below... Michael Fuller wrote: One log is created by Aelita's EDM software and a folder appears in the event log called EDM Server. I cannot clear this log.

Event log viewing of NT 4 from Win 2K
Jasper Smith jasper_smi...@hotmail.com microsoft public sqlserver server 1) It depends on the severity level and the WITH LOG option for userdefined RAISERROR TSQL statements. Jobs can also write success/failure to NT Application Event Log 2) The SQL Error log usually contains more detailed information on errors

SQL Server event log
This information is in chapter 5, called "The Event Log" and it's been very helpful to me... Mark Samuel R. Blackburn wrote: Have you tried creating another key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/ SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/EventLog ? Jay Cincotta wrote in message ... I'm leading a team developing software that

copying and clearing custom event logs
I understand that you would like to export Event Log to .csv or .txt file. You have tried to use the BackupEventLog function to write the event to file; however, the file format is .evt. I have written a sample script to export the System Event log to the C:\system.txt file. You can customize it according to your

Remote Event Log
I recently had to rebuild my Exchange Server so I have been monitoring the Event Logs pretty closely. Today I noticed these entries in the Application Log: 2043 Event Type: Information Event Source: MSExchangeSA Event Category: General Event ID: 2043 Date: 3/3/2004 Time: 1:51:45 PM User: N/A Computer: <my exchange

Corrupt Event Log File
You need Event Viewer to be able to open the log files. MS included 95 versions of some of the NT4 server tools on the NT4 server CD (basically, Server Manager, User Manager & Event Viewer), but I don't think they've done this for Win2000. Even if you have these tools available, I don't think the NT4 event viewer

SBS viewing of clients event logs problem
Joe Richards [MVP] humorexpr...@hotmail.com microsoft public win2000 cmdprompt admin First off scanning the event log all comes down to the event log API, all of the apps that do it are doing it roughly the same way so you can't do much to speed it up EXCEPT have an agent running on the servers OR having the

Event Log Consolidation
The scenario is this: I'm developing a web service which will expose the event logs on the server running the service. The web service will read and clear the logs. No method will write to the log; no method will create any new logs. The service is secured using integrated Windows authentication with identity