Powershell Script to Add an Event Log

When setting up logging for your ASP.NET application, you may want to write to a custom Event Log. If you do not install your web application, however, you may be dismayed that the service account for your web application does not have sufficient permissions to create an Event Log when you write to it.

Here is a PowerShell script to help you out:

$creationData = new-object System.Diagnostics.EventSourceCreationData "AppName", "LogName"
$creationData.MachineName = "TargetServerName"
[System.Diagnostics.EventLog]::CreateEventSource($creationData)