Feb 7, 2008

Give permissions to your apps to write to custom event log source

1. Create your Log source by code (You may not see it reflected in the event viewer)
2. Run Regedit
3. Travel to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\[your created Log source]
4. Right click and select properties
5. Give the access rights
6. Close the reg hive
7. Refresh the event viewer
8. The newly added log source will appear
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