win7 - Activate Netlogon debugging

Sometimes we need to see exactly what's happening on a host logon, to do this on a Win7 Box: 

1. Start the Regedt32 program.

2. Delete the Reg_SZ value of the following registry entry, create a REG_DWORD value with the same name, and then add the 2080FFFF hexadecimal value.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters\DBFlag

3. At a command prompt, type net stop netlogon, and then type net start netlogon. This enables debug logging.

After this a new file is created on %windir%\debug\netlogon.log

Happy reading...

A nice app to facilitate the reading of this debug log it's:  Policy Reporter (hxxp://www.sysprosoft.com/policyreporter.shtml)


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