Conducting Additional Event Viewer Management Tasks

Now that you understand the functionality of each of the folders associated with the Event Viewer included with Windows Server 2012, it is beneficial to review the upcoming sections for additional management tasks associated with Event Viewer. These tasks include the following:

• Saving event logs

• Organizing data

• Viewing logs on remote servers

• Archiving events

• Customizing the event log

• Understanding the security log

Saving Event Logs

Event logs can be saved and viewed at a later time. You can save an event log by either right-clicking a specific log and choosing Save Events As or by picking individual events from within a log, right-clicking the selected events, and choosing Save Selected ...

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