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As mentioned earlier in my “Working with Vista’s new Event Viewer" and "Working with Filtering and Custom Views in the Vista Event Viewer" articles, the new Event Viewer in Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 has been totally re-designed and now offers a much wider administrative capabilities.
One of the features of the new Event Viewer is the ability to easily assign custom tasks to events that are logged to any one of the logs. Although this feature has been possible in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 by using the EVENTTRIGGERS command-line application, assigning tasks to events is now so simple that I fear we will all get too used to it…
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Note: Although assigning tasks to events is a nice thing to have, I would like to remind you that this is not a true monitoring and reporting replacement. Tools like MOM and other monitoring software will perform much better than the simple tasks one would assign to any given event.
Changing the properties of the custom task might be useful when you need to change any setting assigned for the task, such as the type of Event ID, action, schedule or other settings.
To change the properties of the custom task:
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Running a custom task for any given error, warning, or security audit failure even that is logged on your computer is a highly effective way of keeping track of the problematic events you might be looking for, and is a huge improvement over previous versions of the Event Viewer snap-in.
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