Hi!
On a MS Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition (with SP1) that is a
Domain Controller I sometimes see messages in the local Event Log that
contain the following text in the description:
The description for Event ID ( xxx ) in Source ( yyy ) cannot be found.
The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or
message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. You may
be able to use the /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description; see
Help and Support for details.
The event source is one of the following:
DNS, ESE, WUSyncService, HHCTRL.
AFAIK, it means that the Event Viewer cannot find some information
needed to display the description of an event in the Event Log. How is
it possible that the Event Viewer cannot find that information for the
events generated on the local computer?
I looked at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312216/en-us
that describes how to run the Event Viewer with the /auxsource switch
if you have problems with viewing messages from a remote computer. But
the article does not say anything about such problems on local computer.
-- rpr. /Robert Premuz/
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