Summary

The Support Diagnostics Platform (SDP) manifest file is designed to collect relevant registry data, configuration files, and event log information to help troubleshoot common System Center Endpoint Protection support issues. This article provides details on the data collected by the System Center Endpoint Protection Diagnostics.

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This article describes the information that may be collected from a machine when running System Center Endpoint Protection Diagnostics Information CollectedWMI information

Description

File Name

EP related info from WMI

{Computername}_EP_CCM_WMI.log

Virtualization Information

Description

File Name

Virtualization Information Output

{Computername}_Virtualization.TXT{Computername}_Virtualization.htm

System State Information

Description

File Name

Scheduled tasks

{Computername}_schtasks.csv{Computername}_schtasks.txt

Services

{Computername}_SC_Services_Output.txt

Running processes

{Computername}_TaskList.txt

Environment Variables

{Computername}_EnvironmentVariables.txt

Filter Manager - Minifilter drivers and instances

{Computername}_Fltmc.TXT

System Information

Description

File Name

NFO Format

{Computername}_msinfo32.nfo

Text Format

{Computername}_msinfo32.txt

System Center Configuration

Description

File Name

Agent Logs (CAB)

{Computername}_ConfigMgrAgentLogs.CAB

Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP)

Description

File Name

GPResult /z output

{Computername}_GPResult.txt

GPResult /H output

{Computername}_GPResult.htm

Installed updates/hotfixes

Description

File Name

Update/Hotfix history

{Computername}_Hotfixes.TXT{Computername}_Hotfixes.htm{Computername}_Hotfixes.CSV

File/Folder information

Description

File Name

Antimalware APPData tree

{Computername}_EP_APPDATA_TREE.log

Event Log Files

Description

File Name

Application

{Computername}_evt_Application.csv{Computername}_evt_Application.evtx{Computername}_evt_Application.txt

System

{Computername}_evt_System.evtx{Computername}_evt_System.csv{Computername}_evt_System.txt

EP Setup Logs

Description

File Name

Setup Logs (the number of files may differ as well as additional uninstall files depending on re-install/uninstall attempts)

{Computername}_MSSecurityClient_Setup_FEP_Install.log{Computername}_MSSecurityClient_Setup_epp_Install.log{Computername}_MSSecurityClient_Setup_mp_ambits_Install.log{Computername}_EppSetup.etl{Computername}_Providers.etl{Computername}_Application.etl{Computername}_EppSetup.log{Computername}_EppSetupResult.ini

EP Information

Description

File Name

Definition Update diagnostics

{Computername}_DefsAnalysis.log

Collecting Log files

Description

File Name

Windows Security Center

{Computername}_SecurityCenter.txt

AutoRuns Information

Description

File Name

Autoruns output

{Computername}_Autoruns.htm{Computername}_Autoruns.XML

Antimalware client support files

Description

File Name

Antimalware client support files

MPSupportFiles.cabMPLog-<date>-<time>.logMPDetection-<date>-<time>.log

References                                                                                                                            KB 926079 - Frequently asked questions about the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT)http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926079

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