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Forwarding security related events from XP, Win2k3, Vista using WinRM (WSMan) event forwarding

Procedure for forwarding system and application logs from a given winrm endpoint can be found at http://blogs.technet.com/otto/default.aspx 

In order to forward security events, the following needs to be done at the endpoint:

If endpoint is Vista, WS08: Add "Network Service" to the "Event Log Readers" group. This is because limited users have access to read events from the security log - "Event Log Readers" group being one of them.

If endpoint is Win2k3 R2: The following CustomSD key needs to be set within "HKLM/SYSTEM/CCS/Services/EventLog/Security" to "O:BAG:SYD:(A;;CC;;;NS)". This is because on Win2k3 there is no event log readers group. More info can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/323076

If endpoint is XP SP2+: WinRM service needs to be running as LocalSystem

 

 

Posted: Monday, April 06, 2009 6:30 PM by Uma Boddeti
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Comments

Nitin said:

Is there any C++ sample code available for collecting windows events for W2K8 Server or Vista?

# September 14, 2009 2:01 AM
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