Did you ever figure this out? I have been given an executable that has this call in it (which works just fine when run on an XP machine (backing up another remote xp machine): Win32::EventLog::OpenBackup ($EVTFILE,$SOURCE) where $EVTFILE = sprintf("%s\\%s_%s.evt",$BACKUP_LOG_DIR,$machine, $log_name); and $SOURCE = sprintf('\\\\%s',$MACHINE); and $MACHINE = shift || Win32::NodeName; But I get the same error when running this executable on a Server 2008 machine, trying to backup the event logs on a remote XP machine. I don't have the ability to change the code that the executable was compiled from. but perhaps I might be able to update the local DLLs or something else?

In reply to Re^4: How to access Windows Vista/Server 2008 eventlogs(.evtx vs. .evt) by Anonymous Monk
in thread How to access Windows Vista/Server 2008 eventlogs(.evtx vs. .evt) by pbolduc

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