Programmatically change Event Viewer properties in C#

Question

IIS 7.5 supports IIS configuration change auditing by changing setting from Event Viewer/Applications and Services Logs/Microsoft/Windows/Operational/Enable Log.

I tried it through Event Viewer and it worked great.
But what I need is not to do that manually using Event Viewer.

Instead, I need to achieve that programmatically in C# through API - an API for programming the above Event Viewer property (not IIS property) so that I can enable the logging .

Is that possible?

If so, how?

Any help is highly appreciated.

That's a good work-around if no API available for Event Viewer. But, again, is there a command available for that? — user2434400, Apr 14 '14 at 18:43

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 14 '18 at 17:48

I was looking for the same thing ! I've just figure it out, it's quite simple:

string logName = "Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Operational";
EventLogConfiguration log = new EventLogConfiguration(logName);

log.IsEnabled = true;

try
{
    log.SaveChanges();
}
catch (UnauthorizedAccessException e)
{
    Console.WriteLine("You need administrator privileges. " + e.Message);
}

Programmatically change Event Viewer properties in C#

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