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Event logs for troubleshooting - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2025 Essential Training
Event logs for troubleshooting
The Event Viewer in any version of Windows Server is one of the best ways to troubleshoot any types of server issues. I'm going to go into the Tools Menu in Server Manager and go to Event Viewer. There's lots of different types of events and different categories of events, and let's take a look at some of those right now. One of the more popular areas to troubleshoot an issue would be to go into Windows logs. You can click on Application, System, and Security, if you suspect any security issues. And here's a good sign that the majority of my logs just to start out with in application are all informational. However, there may be some errors, there may be some warnings, or critical events as well, and you can certainly sort by level, just by clicking on Level. By default, you're going to see it sorts by date and time. So I'm going to scroll back to the top now that it's been sorted, and here are a lot of different errors, and they all say, Security center is the source. And if you go…
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