[gptalk] Re: Enabling verbose logging in Vista?

Andrew-

Yes, by default the Operational Log is verbose and is on. In fact, the one
nice thing about that log is that it gives timings for each step of GP
Processing within the related event. That makes it easy to come up with a
good answer of where time is being spent without having to dig a lot.


Darren

 

From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Andrew McHale
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:51 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Enabling verbose logging in Vista?

 

Darren,

 

Does this mean that Verbose logging is now on by default via the event
viewer?

 

I was hoping to increase the logging to maximum as I know when I ask the
question about slow GPUpdate times I'll be asked if I've enabled verbose
logging ;)

 

Andrew

 

 

 

From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:darren@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 18 December 2008 16:39
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Enabling verbose logging in Vista?

 

Andrew-

You should not have to do anything to turn on Operational Logging. If you go
into the Event Viewer under Applications & Services Logs, Microsoft,
Windows, GroupPolicy, you should see many, many events, which correspond to
the detailed logging. You can use the command-line GPLogView utility
(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=BCFB1955-CA1D-4F00
-9CFF-6F541BAD4563
<http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=BCFB1955-CA1D-4F00
-9CFF-6F541BAD4563&displaylang=en> &displaylang=en) to display this data to
a text file, filter it, or even view it in real-time.

 

Darren

 

From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Andrew McHale
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:26 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Enabling verbose logging in Vista?

 

You sounds like you use this view often Darren... so any idea what I'm doing
wrong?!?!? ;)

 

Andrew

 

From: Darren Mar-Elia [mailto:darren@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 18 December 2008 16:20
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Enabling verbose logging in Vista?

 

Yea, I'm always curious to know why someone would drop into gpsvc.log when
the GP Operational Logs are there (well, besides Alan, I know he likes those
nasty text logs J)

 

Darren

 

From: gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gptalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Andrew McHale
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 8:09 AM
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Enabling verbose logging in Vista?

 

Hi FlowMaN,

 

Isn't that registry value for pre-Vista machines? I thought the registry
value for Vista (according to the link I supplied) is "GPEditDebugLevel".

 

However, I am trying to avoid registry entries by using the Event Viewer
views.

 

Andrew

 

 

From: FlowMaN [mailto:flowman@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 18 December 2008 15:49
To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [gptalk] Re: Enabling verbose logging in Vista?

 

Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\Current Version\Winlogon 
Name: UserenvDebugLevel 
Type: REG_DWORD
UserenvDebugLevel=30002

C:\Windows\Debug\UserMode\gpsvc.log

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Andrew McHale
<Andrew.McHale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi all,

 

Has anyone used verbose GP/Userenv logging in Vista yet?

 

I've been hunting around google today but can't find how to do it.

 

I found the below link that describes turning it on via the new event viewer
but after creating a custom view with Verbose ticked and rebooting the
custom view is empty.

 

http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1294555,00.h
tml#
<http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1294555,00.
html> 

 

Any pointers most appreciated!

 

Andrew




-- 
Otto Horvath
[MS MVP - Group Policy]

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