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Configuring forwarding events

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Configuring forwarding events

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- [Instructor] In the last video, we looked at how to connect to the event logs of one other server. For this demonstration, I want to have regular access to error and critical logs from both my domain controller and the update server, and I want to view these logs from my administrator work station, so I don't have to constantly remote into these servers one at a time to stay on top of what's happening. The configuration starts on the servers that we want to monitor. We'll refer to these as the forwarding computers. So here I am, on my domain controller, and I'm going to start by running a command in an elevated command prompt. Again, that's right clicking on the start menu and choosing command prompt admin and I'm going to run a command that may or may not prove necessary, but it's easier to run and not need, then to wonder later why things don't work. The command is winrm quickconfig and it automates some Windows firewall and other settings to allow remote access to the logs. So…

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