Hi Mark Yes, I found out about this recently. A customer I am working with has the Maximum Event Log Size for DCs set to 4GB for the security event log. Their log was overwriting existing events at about 470MB and I couldn't figure it out. After some digging I found the following information (very similar the one you posted).
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/topics/serversecurity/tcg/tcgch06n.mspx Bizarred that Group Policy allows you to set the maximum to 4GB! Tony ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Mark Parris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 13:24:25 +0000 GMT Sent this earlier but my blackberry is playing up. So if another one arrives later - sorry. Does everyone know this recomendation from Microsoft? On Windows XP, member servers, and stand-alone servers, the combined size of the application, security, and system event logs should not exceed 300 MB. On domain controllers, the combined size of these three logs - plus the Directory Service, File Replication Service, and DNS Server logs - should not exceed 300 MB. http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/5a86ab0f-c7eb-45ed-9e5e-514173bf15e31033.mspx?mfr=true Mark List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.activedir.org List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.activedir.org/ml/threads.aspx
