Article ID: 2126681 - Last Review: July 1, 2010 - Revision: 2.0

EvtGetObjectArrayProperty(EvtPublisherMetadataChannelReferencePath) API does not return correct channel information on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.

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SYMPTOMS

EvtGetObjectArrayProperty API with EvtPublisherMetadataChannelReferencePath parameter does not return correct information from Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
EvtPublisherMetadataChannelReferencePath returns zero of array size.

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CAUSE

This issue happens only with Migrated Providers.

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RESOLUTION

Channel names are registered in following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WINEVT\Publishers\<GUID>\ChannelReferences
You can pick up the channel names under default data in ChannelReferences\0.

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MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

This problem is in all Event Publishers, there are over 50 publishers in OS, such as Microsoft-Windows-DistributedCOM, Microsoft-Windows-Security-Kerberos, Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-LocalSessionManager and so on.

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