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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Windows Event Viewer

As an engineer, I am sure you are well aware of Windows Event Viewer. It is a built-in tool that can be used to view and filter event logs on a local or remote computer. The events shown there are generated by the operating system, services, server roles, and applications. This is the most commonly used tool in Windows systems for auditing and troubleshooting purposes.

We also can write custom events to event logs. This is useful if you plan to run a script or action based on a particular event ID. This can be done by using the Write-Eventlog cmdlet.

As shown in the following screenshot, Windows Event Viewer (Local) has four different categories to group event logs:

Figure 19.1: Windows Event Viewer

In the preceding list, Windows Logs and Application and Service Logs both have additional predefined subcategories.

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Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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