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When you open a copy of the Event Log Records of an Exchange Server from another computer, such as an NT Workstation, not all the information is shown. You may see entries such as - 

The description for Event ID (8) in Source (EDB) could not be found. 
It contains the following insertion string(s): MSExchangeIS, (186), 04, 993, 0000.

The matching Event ID's are installed into the Registry when installing Exchange Server. However, when you open a copy of an event log on a machine that doesn't have Exchange Server installed, the actual Event ID's are replaced, as you can see above.

The Initialize Event Log Tool (Initlog.exe), which is part of the BackOffice Resource Kit, can be used to copy these registry entries, and help you correctly monitor the logs. 

   


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