Re: Querying event logs in Vista from XP

I haven't tested it in a domain environment yet, but my experience of the workgroup scenario was indeed that being an administrator wasn't enough.

I'm going to do some more testing soon, but so far my experience of Vista is that it forces you to jump through hoops to do even the simplest thing. I'm in favor of better security, but let's not lose sight of the fact that computers are only useful if they actually do the job you've told them to.

Still, maybe things will improve before the proper release. There are still bugs (the Security event log was never listed in the enumeration, but all security events could be correctly retrieved) so clearly there is still work to be done.


Gerry Hickman wrote:
Hi,

This sounds a bit worrying, are you saying the Administrator is not allowed to read the Event logs?

Does this change after you join it to a domain.

Paul Roberts wrote:
Found it - I just had to add the user (already an administrator!) to the new "Eventlog Readers" group.


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