Re: Writing to event log in from web app

From: David Spectorman (davids@calcom.co.il)
Date: 07/29/02 

From: "David Spectorman" <davids@calcom.co.il>
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 23:47:01 -0700

Using the Event Log

Applications that must write to the Application event log
can do so while they are running as the ASPNET account. If
an application must create a new event log category, the
application must create a registry key under the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry hive, which the ASPNET account
cannot do.

To create the category at run time, you must enable
impersonation, and then you must impersonate an account
that has more access rights. Alternatively, an
administrator can create the category, and the application
can write to the category at run time.

If applications must create new event log categories,
create the categories at installation. After the category
is created, the ASPNET account can write to the
Application event log.

(see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-
us;Q317012
)

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