June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
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Windows logs
The Windows Logs section includes five Windows log files. These mostly contain OS-related events:
- Application log: This log contains the events collected from various applications running on the system. It can be from Microsoft or any other application.
- Security log: This log includes events such as successful and failed system login attempts, for example, a valid or failed user login for a particular system or its resources. Engineers can specify what security events need to be recorded using audit policies.
- Setup log: This includes events related to application setup and adding/removing server roles.
- System log: This log includes events related to Windows system components. As an example, an event related to automatic service ...