Windows XML Event Log (EVTX) - Revision history

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‎Event Viewer

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‎External Links

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‎File Format

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‎External Links

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‎Event Identifiers

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‎External Links

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 * [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749339.aspx wevtutil]
 * [http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24659 LogParser]
 [[Category:File Formats]]

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 The Windows XML Event Log (EVTX) format was introduces in [[Windows|Windows Vista]] as a replacement for the [[Windows Event Log (EVT)]] format.
 == Event Viewer ==
-On Windows the event logs can be managed with "Event Viewer" (eventvwr.msc) or "Windows Events Command Line Utility" (wevtutil.exe).
+On Windows the event logs can be managed with "Event Viewer" (eventvwr.msc) or "Windows Events Command Line Utility" (wevtutil.exe). Event Viewer can represent the EVTX files in both "general view" (or formatted view) and "details view" (which has both a "friendly view" and "XML view"). Note that the formatted view can hide significant event data that is stored in the event record and can be seen in the detailed view.
-If you export an event log from Event Viewer additional "display information" can be exported. This "display information" is stored in a corresponding file named:
+If you export an event log from Event Viewer additional "display information" can be exported. This display information is stored in a corresponding file named:
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 LocaleMetaData\%FILENAME%_%LCID%.MTA

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 On Windows the event logs can be managed with "Event Viewer" (eventvwr.msc) or "Windows Events Command Line Utility" (wevtutil.exe).
-If you export an event log from Event Viewer additional "display information" can be exported. This "display information" is stored in a corresponding "%FILENAME%_%LCID%.MTA", where LCID is the "locale identifier" [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664.aspx].
+If you export an event log from Event Viewer additional "display information" can be exported. This "display information" is stored in a corresponding file named:
-Application_1033.MTA
+Where LCID is the "locale identifier" [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664.aspx].
 == See Also ==

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	Windows EventViewer can represent the EVTX files in both "formatted view" and "XML view". Note that the formatted view can hide significant event data that is stored in the event and can be seen in the XML view.		Windows EventViewer can represent the EVTX files in both "formatted view" and "XML view". Note that the formatted view can hide significant event data that is stored in the event and can be seen in the XML view.
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		+	== Event Viewer ==
		+	On Windows the event logs can be managed with "Event Viewer" (eventvwr.msc) or "Windows Events Command Line Utility" (wevtutil.exe).
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		+	If you export an event log from Event Viewer additional "display information" can be exported. This "display information" is stored in a corresponding "%FILENAME%_%LCID%.MTA", where LCID is the "locale identifier" [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664.aspx].
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		+	Application_1033.MTA

	== See Also ==		== See Also ==

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 == External Links ==
 === File Format ===
-* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231282(v=prot.10).aspx EventLog Remoting Protocol Version 6.0 Specification]
+* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231282(v=prot.10).aspx EventLog Remoting Protocol Version 6.0 Specification], by [[Microsoft]]
-* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231354.aspx Simple BinXml Example]
+* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc231354.aspx Simple BinXml Example], by [[Microsoft]]
 * [http://computer.forensikblog.de/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=3&tag=Evtx&limit=20 int for(ensic){blog;} - results tagged Evtx], by [[Andreas Schuster]]
 * [http://www.dfrws.org/2007/proceedings/p65-schuster_pres.pdf Introducing the Microsoft Vista Event Log File Format], by [[Andreas Schuster]] in 2007

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 === Windows Vista/2008 ===
 * [http://support.microsoft.com/kb/947226 Description of security events in Windows Vista and in Windows Server 2008]
 == Tools ==

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 === Event Identifiers ===
 * [http://eventid.net/ EventID.net]
 == Tools ==

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 * [[libevtx]]
 * [[log2timeline]]
 [[Category:File Formats]]