Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
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You enable the Forward events to a different server option in the Advanced page of SQL Server Agent Properties in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014.
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You set a remote server as the server to which you want the events to be forwarded.
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You perform some operations that cause some events to be logged.
In this scenario, you cannot find any logs in the Microsoft Windows Application log for SQL Server Agent events on the remote server.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2014 /en-us/help/2931693
Cumulative Update 8 for SQL Server 2012 SP1 /en-us/help/2917531
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
