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Windows event log ยท Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP/Operational2 A VHD has been removed

This legacy map applies to Windows 8 / Windows Server 2012. The channel name "Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP/Operational" was renamed to "Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP-Operational" in more recent operating systems.

  • Windows operational
  • 2 fields
  • Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP%4Operational.evtx
  • Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP

Fields EvtxECmd extracts

2 columns in the EvtxECmd CSV

  • PayloadData1The VHD %VhdName% has been removed (unsurfaced) as disk number %VhdNumber%
    • %VhdName% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="VhdFileName"]
    • %VhdNumber% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="VhdDiskNumber"]
  • PayloadData2VhdName: %VhdName%
    • %VhdName% = /Event/EventData/Data[@Name="VhdFileName"]

Sample event

Event XML from the map file

<Event>
  <System>
    <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP" Guid="e2816346-87f4-4f85-95c3-0c79409aa89d"/>
    <EventID>2</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>4</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x8000000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime="2014-11-27 22:06:20.9705312"/>
    <EventRecordID>1</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation/>
    <Execution ProcessID="3768" ThreadID="4368"/>
    <Channel>Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP/Operational</Channel>
    <Computer>COMPUTERNAME</Computer>
    <Security UserID="S-1-5-83-1-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890-1234567890"/>
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data Name="VhdFileName">C:\Users\user\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks\testdisk.vhdx</Data>
    <Data Name="VhdDiskNumber">0</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

References

2 links

Source: evtx/Maps/Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP-Operational_Microsoft-Windows-VHDMP_2_Legacy.map(opens in new tab) by Phill Moore, Gabriele Zambelli and contributors(opens in new tab), MIT License(opens in new tab)