Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Applications and Services Logs

The Application and Services Logs category was introduced after Windows Server 2008. This stores the events related to applications and their components. Most of the events listed under here are more suited for application developers to debugging and application-level troubleshooting.

This category has four log types:

• Admin: Events listed in this log are understandable by end users and IT professionals. This information can be used for basic application troubleshooting. Most of these log entries will include instructions or links to knowledge-base articles from the application vendor.
• Operational: Operational events include information about configuration changes or status changes of an application/service. ...