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How do you detect a user who uninstalls software from servers?

mahmoodalamri
Loves-to-Learn

Greetings,

We need to know how to detect and find a user who is uninstalling or deleting any tools or software on our Window servers.

thank you

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p_gurav
Champion

Hi mahmoodalamri,

In windows there are no direct logs you can monitor for application uninstall, but you can enable them. Below blog may be helpful:
https://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/how-to-tell-which-user-installed-or-removed-an-app-in-win...

Then, you can monitor wineventlog:application and look for EventID: 1034 and EventID: 1033.

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