Re: Some remarks regarding Vista's event logging
"Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]" <[email protected]>
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First off the events logs in vista are .evtx not evt so again, they are XML based. Then I think you'll find they work better the other way around. From the Vista machine on the domain I can go into the log files, "connect to other computer" it then lets me drill down via AD (small home network here obviously) I then drill back to the log files on my XP Media Center Edition where I can be on the Vista box and see the log files on the XP. http://www.sbslinks.com/logs.htm Check out those images of being on a Vista (sorry it's a crappy image as I'm TS'ing across to my Sister's Vista and snapping screen shots) Looks to me like from a v6 I can read a v5 just fine. (I should go try out the server..that connect to another computer is reallllly kewl) Frank Heyne wrote: > We never installed a beta version of Vista on those machines :-) > I checked around 10 different installations of Vista (Enterprise, > Bussines, Ultimate, English and German, 32 and 64 bit), all installed on > clean partitions on different machines from either MSDN DVDs or images > downloaded from MSDN. The Registry errors are an ALL those installations. > With other words, I never saw a version of Vista without those errors. > > Have fun > Frank Heyne > http://www.heysoft.de/ > > >> Frank, it appears that your test machine was upgraded (perhaps multiple >> times) from pre-release version of Windows and that THAT had been >> upgraded from Windows XP, and that your registry contains entries that >> were bugs in pre-release versions that are not present in RTM. >> >> I would encourage you to repeat your test on a clean, new installation >> of a RTM Windows Vista machine (not an upgrade from a beta), and report >> any problems that still remain. >> >> We know that Windows XP's Event Viewer does NOT have full support for >> uplevel logs, and it probably never will, but things are not quite as >> bad as you describe. >> >> Best regards, >> Eric >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Frank Heyne >> Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:58 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [logs] Some remarks regarding Vista's event logging >> >> >>> You can't look at a Vista event log on an XP. >>> >> This is not entirely true: >> 1. You can look at the Application, System and Security log of a Vista >> machine from NT 5 very well, (and much better as the Event Viewer does, >> by >> the way). >> 2. You could look at the other logs mentioned in the article as well, if >> the Registry values would not be as buggy as they are. >> 3. You could look at all Vista logs from NT 5 if the OpenEventlog >> function >> would work as documented (that is, would open all event files under >> Vista) >> >> As I wrote at the end of the article, the logs mentioned do not work at >> all, because Vista does not write any events into them. So it does not >> matter from where you want to open them. >> >> >> >>> Service pack has nothing to do with this issue.. >>> >> I would not wonder when the errors in the Registry would go away with >> SP1 of Vista ;-) >> > > > _______________________________________________ > LogAnalysis mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.loganalysis.org/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis > > -- If you are a SBSer... you had better be reading http://blogs.technet.com/sbs - the SBS Blog. ..and my blog is at www.sbsdiva.com....