Remote Control Events No Longer Appear in Security Log

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Since upgrading to SMS SP5 I’ve noticed that Remote Control events are no longer being written to the Security Log. Did the upgrade break something?

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
No.  As detailed on the SP5 README_OPERATIONS file, because of a changes in XP Security SMS now logs all Events relating to Remote Control in the Application Log and not the Security log as it used to.  Here’s the extract from the README_OPERATIONS file:

"Due to security changes implemented in Windows XP, the SMS Remote Control agent is no longer allowed to register remote control events in the Windows NT Security Event Log. Due to this new security restriction, the Remote Control agent for SMS 2.0 SP5 or later will now log Windows NT events to the Windows NT Application Event Log instead of the Windows NT Security Event Log."

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