Lesson 1: Monitoring Events

Windows has always stored a great deal of important information in the event logs. Unfortunately, with versions of Windows released prior to Windows Vista, that information could be very hard to access. Event logs were always stored on the local computer, and finding important events among the vast quantity of informational events could be very difficult.

With Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2, you can collect events from remote computers (including computers running Windows XP) and detect problems such as low disk space before they become more serious. Additionally, Windows now includes many more event logs to make it easier to troubleshoot problems with ...

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