Event Log Service: “Access denied”

I found this along my travels trying to fix a server in the lab, this Microsoft support article had a great fix.  Basically when clearing the event log and rebooting the server, the eventlog service wouldn’t start. This article covers how to reset the security permissions to include the eventlog account, check out either method  1 or 2, I ended up using method 2.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971256

When you try to start the Windows Event Log service from the Services console on Windows Server 2008, the Windows Event Log service fails. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Error 5: Access denied

The Task Scheduler and Windows Event Collector services, which depend on Windows Event Log service, also fail.

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