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Questions tagged [windows-event-log]

"Event log" usually refers to the system/server logs on Microsoft Windows machines.

"Event log" usually refers to the system/server logs on Microsoft Windows machines.

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Event ID 17890 (A significant part... paged out.) with SQL Server 2008

I have a machine that has SQL Server 2008 Standard installed on a Windows 2003 R2 server. Periodically (about once an hour) I am getting Event ID 17890 several times in a row. An example: 6:28:54 "A significant part of sql server process memory has…
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Extreme slowdown when changing folder permissions

Last Friday I attempted to set permissions on a folder containing multiple folders. I simply deleted one user group's access entry, then clicked Apply and was greeted with an hourglass. Pretty soon I couldn't do anything on the server without…
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Is it possible to connect WinServer eventlog from other domain

I have a virtual machine with Windows Server R2 Ent. In this machine runned domain controler test.local. I have admin(doamin and local) account on this machine. I want to get access to event log of this machine from my dev machine which is on my…
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Reporting critical Event ID to email

How do you organize or implement monitoring system in your domain to monitor these critical error on your workstations and servers ? Hardware Related: 7, 9, 11, 51, 52, 55 Potential HD related issue 1053 Servers too hot. Sometimes our Air…
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aggregate local events in AD

How can I aggregate events from event viewer log (logins with local Administrator) from all computers (atleast the servers - 2003,2008,2008r2) in an AD domain?
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Moss 2007 - Event Log EventId:7888 Windows NT user or group not found

I am getting this event in my Application event log: Event Type: Error Event Source: Office SharePoint Server Event Category: Office Server General Event ID: 7888 Date: 11/8/2010 Time: 11:15:36 AM User: N/A Computer: ENTERPRISE Description: A…
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Security Event Log: User field = N/A

In my Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Security Event Log all entries have 'N/A' for the "User:" field. Is there something I can do to have this field filled in? I noticed that this information is recorded in the message of the log entry; I'd just…
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What could cause a flurry of Microsoft-Windows-Servicing events?

I have a windows 2k8 machine that generated almost 40,000 WinEventLog:System events in the period of about 20 minutes. The breakdown of these events by eventcode was approximately: 4373 46% 4371 46% 4383 7% 4372 …
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Does one usually monitor the Event Log on Windows servers?

I'm a programmer not a sysadmin but as we had a lot of trouble with our servers I thought I would be proactive and help our overworked (and learning) sysadmins. We have 20-25 or so Windows Servers (2003 and 2008). They range from SQL Servers, Web…
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Get the "source network address" in Event ID 529 audit entries on Windows XP

In windows server 2003 when an Event 529 (logon failure) occures with a logon type of 10 (remote logon), the source network IP address is recorded in the event log. On a windows XP machine, this (and some other details) are omitted. If a bot is…
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Windows: Audit/View logins from remote networks?

i want to audit remote connection attempts to a Windows 2003 Server. i've changed the group policy to show logon successes and failures: >gpedit.msc Local Computer Policy Computer Configuration Windows Settings Security Settings …
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Parse wevtutil XML into a database?

I'm by no means an XML expert. Ergo, I'm having trouble importing Windows event XML from wevtutil into an SQL database. Prior to Server 2008, we exported event log data to the database directly using Log Parser 2.2, but logparser hasn't been…
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View logs of shutdowns? [Vista]

I'm a normal user with Windows Vista Professional. How do I check the previous date and time when my computer is shutdown?
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psloglist -w into a file

I'm trying to redirect windows event log continuously into a file. psloglist.exe has the -w feature (that listens for new events and outputs to console) so I tried combining it with redirection into a file like so: psloglist -w > out.txt It doesn't…
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windows 2003 server policy error

i saw these two errors on my windows 2003 server from last few days can you please tell me what is these errors and how to remove them
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