Archives by Tag 'Events'
Windows Update service fails to start
This is an easy one but I have see a lot of posts about it, and this last week I needed to fix a broken Windows Update agent myself as SCCM was no longer working due to the service hanging. Windows update does not start. (Fails to start or never gets past “starting”) You may […]
Remote Help not connecting
Remote Help not connecting DCOM error When using Microsoft Remote Help to connect to a computer you get the following window almost immediately.
Repair KMS errors: 0xc004e002 and 0xc004f012
Repair KMS errors: 0xc004e002 and 0xc004f012 When trying to activate Windows using a KMS server you may see the following error. It looks like the Licensing Store might have gotten corrupted – Try the below steps to recreate the Store. Open an Administrator Command Prompt (CMD.exe) stop the Software Licensing Service by running: net stop […]
@Axel Doux
This is in response to Axel Doux’s comment. So I am assuming you created your EventLog something like this: New-EventLog -LogName “My new EventLog” -Source “My sources” And you can write events with: write-eventlog -logname “My new EventLog” -Source “My sources” -Message “Some Error happened” -id 999 Then to read the log you can use: […]
Event Forwarding of Security Logs
This is a long one, sorry but there is a lot in information here. So recently, where I work, we decided to collect a lot of the security events from all of our domain controllers. We are going to use the built-in “Windows Event Collector” service to do this. I am assuming you already have […]