On Interpreting Windows Events - Comprehensive

This piece from Eric "Event Logger" Fitzgerald has pointers to more lists of Windows event information than you ever, ever, ever, ever :-) wanted to look at.

Examples are:

• Windows NT events: "Security Event Descriptions"
• Windows 2000 security events: two articles
• Windows Server 2003 events at Technet Events & Errors Message Center and "complete list of WS03 security events: chapter 4 of the Windows Server 2003 Security Guide"
  
• "Windows Server 2008 events are self-documenting"

Eric also reveals the horrible uber-reason why some of Windows events have no documentation (oh, horror!): "... we count the number of hits for each OS Version/Source/Event ID combination and then our writing teams pester the component owners to populate that content."