Subscriptions

**In this Video: **

• We will describe one of the new features in the Windows Event Viewer called subscriptions.
• We will create and configure a subscription.
• At the completion of this lecture, you will gain valuable-work related knowledge and experience by utilizing and implementing the tools discussed in this lecture.

**Prerequisites: It is recommended to have access to or have installed in your lab the following: **

• One Windows 2016 Server with Active Directory installed and promoted to a domain controller (DNS installs automatically).
• One member server with Windows 2016 server and DNS installed. Join this machine to the domain just like you would any other computer.** **
• One Windows client, preferably windows 10. This machine is not necessary but I have included it. This machine will be joined to the domain.** **
• You could set this up this lab as all VM’s or separate machines.** **
• Appropriate permissions will be needed**. **It is recommended to create a domain admin account on the domain controller and use this account to logon to all the machines.
• Don’t forget to download the supplemental documentation that I have included with this lecture.

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Subscriptions \- What is a subscription? - Simply put a subscription is the settings used to transfer events. In the old day’s if you wanted to examine the event viewer from another server you had to right click on event viewer then connect to the other server. But what if you were managing eight servers. Wouldn’t it be great if you could bring all the logs and events that you wanted to see into one location? That is exactly what you can do with subscriptions.

Before we setup subscriptions some terminology must be understood.

• **Source **computers (forwarding computers) Computers that are configured to send these events.
• **Collector **computers – Computers that are configured to receive these events.
• Events can be transferr…