So I'm trying to get an Asp.Net application running on Windows 2008R2 / IIS 7.5 to log to the Windows Application Event Log using EntLib Logging Application Block.
It works great on our dev/test machines, but when we push to a more restricted environment we don't get any logs.
On the server in question we have in fact, created the event source as an admin using the powershell command New-EventLog -LogName "Application" -Source "MyApp", and configured EntLib correctly.
The usual fix I've seen is that you give your users full control in the registry to read/write to the Windows Event Log. However on the IIS/Asp.Net side we are using Windows Authentication + Impersonation, which means it would be very hard to give ALL the users this.
All of our users do exist within 4 Active Directory groups however, could I use this to give them the necessary permissions for the logging to work? Or is there another way?
Setting it up to Log to the Windows Event Log would have been too much work/insecure for our hosting environment, so we went with a Rolling Text Log file instead.